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Summary: Badly written, superficial and hostile
Review: Gosman's book is really bad. He has one idea, and he repeats it over and over -- you can guess what it is. The book is stuffed with obviously fake examples of the problem he claims to be highlighting, and has now turned into a mini-industry, and the writing is straight out of magazine articles from the 1950s. He has no actual training in what he writes about, nor is he a professional. He really seems to hate children, and this is a constant presence in the book. Reading it will leave you with a little bit of a headache, and the idea that children today are basically evil, materialistic monsters. Particularly irritating are the endless references to how things used to be, when kids were __________ (fill in the blank: more respectful, kinder, less materialistic, more hardworking, whatever). Dumb, obvious, and nasty.
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Summary: Badly written, superficial and hostile
Review: Gosman's book is really bad. He has one idea, and he repeats it over and over -- you can guess what it is. The book is stuffed with obviously fake examples of the problem he claims to be highlighting, and has now turned into a mini-industry, and the writing is straight out of magazine articles from the 1950s. He has no actual training in what he writes about, nor is he a professional. He really seems to hate children, and this is a constant presence in the book. Reading it will leave you with a little bit of a headache, and the idea that children today are basically evil, materialistic monsters. Particularly irritating are the endless references to how things used to be, when kids were __________ (fill in the blank: more respectful, kinder, less materialistic, more hardworking, whatever). Dumb, obvious, and nasty.
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Summary: Excellent work on dealing with materialistic children
Review: Gosman's work speaks to the issue of materialistic children in today's world. Through anecdotes and well thought suggestions he presents a good case for a return to more traditional family values and encourages parents to again rmember how to say "no" and how to find their self esteem from other sources than their children. As a conservative thaerapist I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Excellent work on dealing with materialistic children
Review: Gosman's work speaks to the issue of materialistic children in today's world. Through anecdotes and well thought suggestions he presents a good case for a return to more traditional family values and encourages parents to again rmember how to say "no" and how to find their self esteem from other sources than their children. As a conservative thaerapist I highly recommend it.
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Summary: excellent ideas stemming from concern-with a touch of humor!
Review: Regardless of what ONE reader suggests, this is a very enlightening book. The author is frustrated with the results our children have become, due to our "spoiling" of them. However, he is not hostile, he is merely concerned. He states up-front that he is not a "professional", but that he is a parent, which I feel is more credible anyway! He shares examples of spoiled children and offers solutions, so that our children may become the responsible, moral, and self-sufficient adults that we all want them to be. I am also a parent and have read dozens of parenting type books. This one is realistic and blunt and offers hope to us parents who only want the best for our children. Mr. Gosman shows us that we can discipline AND "spoil", but that one without the other is futile.
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Summary: excellent ideas stemming from concern-with a touch of humor!
Review: Regardless of what ONE reader suggests, this is a very enlightening book. The author is frustrated with the results our children have become, due to our "spoiling" of them. However, he is not hostile, he is merely concerned. He states up-front that he is not a "professional", but that he is a parent, which I feel is more credible anyway! He shares examples of spoiled children and offers solutions, so that our children may become the responsible, moral, and self-sufficient adults that we all want them to be. I am also a parent and have read dozens of parenting type books. This one is realistic and blunt and offers hope to us parents who only want the best for our children. Mr. Gosman shows us that we can discipline AND "spoil", but that one without the other is futile.
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Summary: excellent ideas stemming from concern-with a touch of humor!
Review: the person that hated this book is NUTS! I think it probably hit home for them and they couldn't handle it. I would suspect they have kids that are out of control. Many of the ideas hit home with me too, but instead of bashing the author, I realized what a big mistake I've made with my own kids by giving in to their every whim. Kids need to learn to respect adults and have discipline in their life again. This guy made every other book I have ever read on child rearing obsolete. No, he's not a professional...he is a CONCERNED PARENT. This is much better than all the corny stuff professionals that don't have kids babble on and on about. I NEVER got the idea that the author hates kids. Never was he hostile. Yes, some of the ideas are out of the 50's, but do our kids really need every toy, every outfit and everything that kids in the 90's get today. This guy doesn't just bring up problems, he gives good solid, LOVING AND REALISTIC advice on how to take care of the problem. The book is very well written. I read it in one day, I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: This is a MUST READ book for anyone related to children
Review: the person that hated this book is NUTS! I think it probably hit home for them and they couldn't handle it. I would suspect they have kids that are out of control. Many of the ideas hit home with me too, but instead of bashing the author, I realized what a big mistake I've made with my own kids by giving in to their every whim. Kids need to learn to respect adults and have discipline in their life again. This guy made every other book I have ever read on child rearing obsolete. No, he's not a professional...he is a CONCERNED PARENT. This is much better than all the corny stuff professionals that don't have kids babble on and on about. I NEVER got the idea that the author hates kids. Never was he hostile. Yes, some of the ideas are out of the 50's, but do our kids really need every toy, every outfit and everything that kids in the 90's get today. This guy doesn't just bring up problems, he gives good solid, LOVING AND REALISTIC advice on how to take care of the problem. The book is very well written. I read it in one day, I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: PeterDarling is correct.
Review: This book is a dangerously misleading one. This Gosman guy is an ..., and a grouchy one at that. The practice of parenting should be based on a dovetailing of fundamental personal values with scientific research evidence in the area of developmental psychology, not some angry guy's ranting about "kids these days". He gets one star for one or two novel behaviour modification tips I'd never heard before. Most of it was ... But stay away from this book: if you are not knowledgeable regarding psychology to begin with, it'll poison you, and if you ARE a little more sophisticated, it'll bore and disgust you.
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