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Summary: The illustrations are great
Review: Rosemend brings a sense of old fashioned beliefs and expectations to his parenting techniques. This is find for many, but I can see where some are put off by it. This book is no exception. However, the real delight with this book are the illustrations by Koterba! They really make this book complete. He has the knack for capturing the essence of each chapter in a often times humorous manner. Even if you are not a Rosemend fan, the cartoons are worth it with this book.
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Summary: The illustrations are great
Review: Rosemend brings a sense of old fashioned beliefs and expectations to his parenting techniques. This is find for many, but I can see where some are put off by it. This book is no exception. However, the real delight with this book are the illustrations by Koterba! They really make this book complete. He has the knack for capturing the essence of each chapter in a often times humorous manner. Even if you are not a Rosemend fan, the cartoons are worth it with this book.
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Summary: More evidence that Rosemond really doesn't like children
Review: Rosemond present more evidence that he is really a parenting "expert" who is more interested in making life easy for parents than actually raising children in a loving, caring environoment. He tries to modulate his pro-hitting stance by suggesting that hitting is sometimes not hitting yet his own stories about his fear of being spanked as a child himself goes a long way in exposing his nonsense.Rosemond is less a parenting "expert" than a man with a political agenda who out of hand rejects research in favor of his own personal, skewed opinions. Try to get some real information on his credentials and you are out of luck. Rosemond should limit his writings to the editorial pages of right wing "Christian" publications where other adults who use the Bible to make excuses for mistreating children by calling it discipline rather than making a sincere, honest effort to provide a stable, loving home where violence in raising children is not an option hang out. It's really where he belongs.
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Summary: Keep It in Perspective
Review: The theme of this book is to point out that there are profound differences in "spanking" when it is done appropriately and what others refer to as "hitting." Unlike some other child psychologists who want to lump everything from spanking to murder into one category, Rosemund reveals the element that is being left out of the discipline equation--common sense. Experts tell parents that if they are intelligent, they don't need spanking to discipline their children--but intelligence also means being able to interject reason into the decision making process. The logic of the anti-spanking movement doesn't wash!
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Summary: Keep It in Perspective
Review: The theme of this book is to point out that there are profound differences in "spanking" when it is done appropriately and what others refer to as "hitting." Unlike some other child psychologists who want to lump everything from spanking to murder into one category, Rosemund reveals the element that is being left out of the discipline equation--common sense. Experts tell parents that if they are intelligent, they don't need spanking to discipline their children--but intelligence also means being able to interject reason into the decision making process. The logic of the anti-spanking movement doesn't wash!
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Summary: This book is a bomb
Review: This is just another sad example of so called experts who want to justify hitting children. I hope parents will have more sense then to buy into this fallacy.
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Summary: Finally, A Balanced Discipline Book!
Review: Writers always seem to want to bash spanking, even though the research has never proven spanking is bad (90% of parents have spanked!). This book gives very good suggestions and I would recommend it to anyone who wants an unbiased discipline book.
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