John Rosemond Quotations

What happens is that the mother spends so much time with the child that the father's role ends up being a parenting aid.

I think what's happening is we are failing to equip children with the skills that they need - the emotional skills as well as the practical skills.

Today, you see kids 5, 6, 8 throwing tantrums ... having to be dragged out of the store by their parents. Even worse, not being dragged out of the store by their parents. You folks think this is normal.

What's happening in America today is parents are emphasizing their relationship with their children instead of leadership. Anyone in leadership will tell you you cannot have a warm, fuzzy relationship with someone you're in charge of leading.

By age 3, a child has arrived to one of two conclusions: It is his job to pay attention or it his parents' job to pay attention.

The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile.

Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.

Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.

The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.

Whats happening in America today is parents are emphasizing their relationship with their children instead of leadership. Anyone in leadership will tell you you cannot have a warm, fuzzy relationship with someone youre in charge of leading.

Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No...Unfortunately, many, if not most, of today's children suffer from Vitamin N deficiency. They've been overindulged by well-meaning parents who've given them far too much of what they want and far too little of what they truly need.

We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder … whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" … The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.