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Family Building: The Five Fundamentals of Effective Parenting

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I have been a longtime fan of John Rosemond & this book is one of my favorites. Anyone who is tired of the way society spoils, pampers, & micromanages kids these days will think this book is a breath of fresh air! I love my child, but I don't buy the idea that we are supposed to create such self-centered children that they think thier wants & desires come in first, last & always!

I am a professional nanny of over 12 years and have read almost every "it" book on how to raise children. This book, along with "Because I said So," another Rosemond title, is pretty close to being the most amazing book I have ever read. I have seen what happens when children are over indulged, given too much attention and given a status that they have not earned and it's not pretty! I am so sick of spending time with children who act like the world owes them something and also like they should enjoy the same rights as adults. That simply is not reality and we do children an injustice to allow them to behave that way. How does that prepare them for the real world? Anyways, the book is great, full of good stuff and wonderful question and answer sections at the end of each chapter. Any parent or caregiver would benefit from reading it.

I waited anxiously for the newest John Rosemond book and was very disappointed. It seems to be the same information as his books Raising a Non-Violent Child and Parent Power. I read nothing new. Parents who are already familiar with his other works won't find anything new...sadly. A big disappointment that his material is continually recycled with only a new title and cover.

This is one of the best child-rearing books that I have ever read. I would strongly recommend it to any parent looking to raise childern with strong character.

I wish I'd read this book before I took in foster kids last fall. Discipline guidelines for foster parents, coupled with a background of parental leniency and the like, makes it a challenge to help foster children understand what is expected of them. And though I was strict, and loving too, at times I felt guilty because of things I probably shouldn't have felt guilty about. And I let them get away with things they probably shouldn't, in the attempt not to try to change everything at once.

Note: Rosemond simply doesn't get into spanking at all, so whether your household does or doesn't use it, you'll find his commonsense, strict approach, with the goal of a successful family and morally upright offspring, useful. He undercuts many common parenting mistakes, and gives reasons that some choices don't work well--including some that have set my teeth on edge but that I couldn't necessarily explain why they seemed wrong. And the questions and answers on specific issues help make it practical.

I'm ordering more than one copy, to give some away as gifts to new parents. I don't agree with everything, of course. At times Rosemond seems a little TOO remote and unemotional (not finding it problematic to leave a six-week-old baby with grandparents for four days, for example), but overall this is a welcome correction to our cultural tendency to raise self-centered, undisciplined, and unlikable brats.

it's nice to read ideas from someone using common sense and old school techniques vs. all the phsychologists who target our emotions and guilt when discussing how to raise our children.

Look at our society today... something is not working. Rosemond goes against the grain and give good, solid advise. A bit tough at times, but worth trying some techniques.

I always heard about how well behaved children were in the 1950's and before, and I wondered what that ggeneration did differently! This book made me realize that we put far to much importance into making our children always happy, rather then teaching them to make God and others happy and then they will be happy in return. Dr Rosemond made me realize that life DOES NOT revolve around the children and if we make them think it does, what are they going to do when they go out into the real world and see that they are not the center of the universe??? Very Good!

I only begun to read this book and agree with some of the comments but not all.
I am eager to read the rest of the book.
The book came very well packaged. thank you

This guy is right wing, conservative quack. Where he fails is he thinks EVERY child is the same. He spends the first few pages cracking on Dr. Phil and Thomas Gordon (the world-renowned Parent Effectiveness Training author). Apparently a book that's received excellent remarks and sold millions of copies isn't enough to convince Mr. Rosemond here that maybe he's behind. In his book, he demands respect (even from children who aren't his). This book has a "my way or the highway" approach to raising children. It's NOT about communication, it's about dictatorship. This book is also not for atheists, agnostics, free-thinkers, brights, etc... who finds useless religious remarks filling in the gaps in a book that's supposed to be of some beneficial value, annoying. This book is not good if your trying to get advice on raising a non-conforming, artisan child or dealing with a free-spirited idealist mentality.

Save yourself the money. Go buy P.E.T. Thomas Gordon takes a healthy approach to raising a child by building a relationship with the child. Think about it, when you were growing up, wouldn't you have rather done something to help out because you WANTED too or because you were given an ultimatum? (Yes, you can actually have a relationship with your son or daughter like that). Parent Effectiveness Training is extremely useful.