Today I have another book review that I get the privileged to do thanks to Thomas Nelson
In Rosemond’s book titled “The Well Behaved Child”, there are some great ideas and many more where you may say, “That sounds so old school and primitive”. Well, it may be but his point early in the book is: The problem with parenting today is all of the new ideas. Everything today is a syndrome or a disorder with kids being labeled more all the time. Rosemond’s ideas stem back to “Grandma’s and Grandpa’s” time when children knew their place and it wasn’t in the center of the family. The marriage came first, then the children.
You will find that in this book he has loaded it with parenting tools of the trade, including:
1. Seven Fundamentals of Effective Parenting
2. Seven Essential Tools
3. Seven Behavior Problems Solved
4. Seven Tales of Strange and Unexpected
5. Seven Final Words of Advice
I think he has something with the number “7” what do you think?
While Rosemond provides methods and tools to correct behavior problems, he strongly believes the they are only vehicles to bring back the authority that parents have lost over their kids. He deals early on as well not stopping after you have solved and changed the “sympton”, but to keep going until you deal with the “cause”. Because just as when we get sick, often times we get over the symptoms and go back to our every day life, to only have that sickness come back and stronger than before. It s the same with discipline and wrong attitudes.
Overall, I think if you have children in your life you will enjoy the parenting ideas in this book. And as he claims in the end that his mission is to help parents to: (a) understand that they have been mislead by the psychobabblers and (b) get back on the right track, that he does just this inside this book.
What are your thoughts concerning this? Primitive or right on?
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