Parent-Babble: How Parents Can Recover from Fifty Years of Bad Expert Advice

191 Pages·2012·0.89 MB·English

by  John Rosemond

Other Books by John Rosemond
The NEW Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children
The NEW Parent Power!
Ending the Homework Hassle
Making the “Terrible” Twos Terrific!
A Family of Value
Because I Said So!
Teen Proofing
To Spank or Not to Spank
Family-Building
Parenting by the Book
The Diseasing of America’s Children (with Dr. Bose Ravenel)
The Well-Behaved Child: Discipline That REALLY Works!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special appreciation to Christine Schillig, my longtime editor at Andrews
McMeel Publishing, for believing in my work and helping me become a better
writer. Long may you run, Chris.
Many thanks to Kindred Howard, who did much of the research for, and
wrote preliminary drafts of, several chapters.
Recognition to Dr. Michael Youssef, pastor and author of When All the
Crosses Are Gone, for providing the inspiration for much of chapter one.
Gratitude to my good friend and colleague Dr. Don Jacobsen, for reading the
first two chapters and cheering me on.

“I sometimes think the world will either be saved
by psychologists, in the broadest sense, or it will
not be saved at all.”
—ABRAHAM MASLOW, HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGIST (1908–1970)
“There is nothing so absurd that some
philosopher has not already said it.”
—MARCUS TILLIUS CICERO (106–43 BC)

CONTENTS
Introduction
ONE
The Cost of New Ideas
TWO
Authority Babble
THREE
Self-Esteem Babble