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A Different Way to Raise Your Kids
Think of your marriage first — not the kids!
If parenting guru, John Rosemond, tells you only one thing, it’s this: stop being child-centered parents and train your children to become parent-centered children.
He calls himself the “parenting guru” and will tell you with absolute conviction that he’s the expert when it comes to raising kids and everyone else has got it wrong.
As an evangelical Christian, Rosemond believes he is on a mission from God.
It’s difficult to disagree with him.
Almost everything Rosemond teaches, he learned from his tough-loving mother by the way she raised him during the 1950’s. Most of it makes sense.
Back then, it wasn’t uncommon for six-year-old John to go to his mother for help only to hear her say something like, “John Rosemond, figure it out for yourself, and while you’re at it, go outside and don’t disturb me again until I call you in for dinner!” he tells us in his charming southern accent.
He had a mean mother, right? Wrong.
Unconditional Love and Authoritative Leadership.
In John Rosemond’s world, respect isn’t taught by treating a child with respect; it’s taught…
