Teen-Proofing Fostering Responsible Decision Makin

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Summary: It Works!!
Review: I've read many books on what to do with your teen. If you follow Dr. Rosemond's advice in this book it will make life easier for you now, and your teen later.

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Summary: Everyone with teens or pre-teens should read this book
Review: John Rosemond takes a no-nonsense approach to parenting. However, he does not teach parents how to control their kids. He teaches how to set up situations where the child learns for himself. Parents have a tendency to enable self-destructive behavior in their kids because of the "pyschobabble" they have been taught. Rosemond helps parents avoid that trap. It is about gaining control of the child by setting it up so that the child controls himself, the opposite of the "micro-manageing" that many parents fall into. I especially like the reality Rosemond introduces about our kids: that they will never be perfect, that they will probably do something we wish they wouldn't, and that they will probably turn out okay anyway. Rosemond's approach is tough, but in a realistic and not "mean" way. After reading the book, you'll probably say, "Why wasn't I doing this before?"

Rating:
Summary: Everyone with teens or pre-teens should read this book
Review: John Rosemond takes a no-nonsense approach to parenting. However, he does not teach parents how to control their kids. He teaches how to set up situations where the child learns for himself. Parents have a tendency to enable self-destructive behavior in their kids because of the "pyschobabble" they have been taught. Rosemond helps parents avoid that trap. It is about gaining control of the child by setting it up so that the child controls himself, the opposite of the "micro-manageing" that many parents fall into. I especially like the reality Rosemond introduces about our kids: that they will never be perfect, that they will probably do something we wish they wouldn't, and that they will probably turn out okay anyway. Rosemond's approach is tough, but in a realistic and not "mean" way. After reading the book, you'll probably say, "Why wasn't I doing this before?"

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Summary: reasonable ideas, insufferable moralizing
Review: These ideas seem almost too good to be true. On the one hand, we might project ourselves into one of his examples of parenting checkmate with Eric and Amy. Those rascals may be smart, but we parents are smarter! On the other hand, the moralizing just got to be too much for this reader. For instance, in his chapter entitled "Drugs, Sex and Other Cheap Thrills", Rosemond gives the following "slight caveat": "...There are indeed parents that create circumstances that make it almost inevitable that their children will indulge in drug and alcohol binges, sexual promiscuity, and so on through the list of cheap thrills. If you smoke pot openly around your child, you child is 99 percent more likely to smoke pot (and probably use other drugs as well). If you are sexually promiscuous, and you parade your promiscuity in front of your child, your child is 99 percent more likely to become sexually promiscuous. And so on. But you-the parent reading this book-are not that kind of parent. As I've already said, parents who do those sorts of things don't read parenting books." Add that to his exhortation that we should lose our aversion to organized religion for the sake of our kids, as well as strategic bible quotes, and you've got a lovely, 270 page Sunday school lecture. However, I did enjoy his discussion of the Three Great Understandings, and his thoughts on control freak vs. wimp parents.