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Run and fun Saturday
With St. Patrick's Day falling on a Monday, this Saturday, March 15, shapes up as your best local opportunity to celebrate the holiday with your little leprechauns - and the Knights of Columbus have you covered morning and night.
Talk to your children about sex
Sex - in some households, it's a dirty word and in some households, it means open communication. The month of March is designated nationally as "Talk to Your Teen About Sex Month." And while I believe that we should be talking to our teens on a daily basis about a number issues, I am grateful that the month of March has been established to talk to your teens about sex. Hopefully, this will inspire you ...
Multiples of Love
If it seems that there are more twins and triplets around nowadays than there were when you were a kid, your instinct is correct. The number of multiple births is high, and rising.
What's In a Name?
Let me admit, here and now, that I have a very ordinary name. So the following rant may result from my envy of men, women and children with more colorful names. (When I was 11 I did ask permission to go by Suzette - not Crepe Suzette - and this request was, fortunately, denied.)
The President of Good Manners
Every day you are hearing and seeing presidential candidates telling us why they would make the best leader of this country. Later in the year we will each have to make our own decision and cast our vote based on what we hear the candidates say.
The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang
As a high-risk teen counselor, I have been running tough love parenting groups for over 25 years. It never ceases to amaze me how many stories I have heard, and will continue to hear, about teens who are violent - teens that don't get their own way and manipulate mom and dad by punching holes in the walls, throwing things and destroying property, teens that exert their desire for control in the worst possible ways - and worse yet we let them.
Destination Weddings
Getting married is one of the most joyous yet stressful occasions in life. Among the many stressful aspects of wedding planning is choosing a location.
Articles by Section - Rosemond on Parenting
John Rosemond: Back in the Day
When I was a child, back in the Parenting Stone Age (a.k.a. the Parentocentric Era), your parents were the most important people in the family. They paid the bills, bought your clothes, prepared the food you ate, took care of you when you were sick, drove you to where you needed to be, tucked you in, and kissed you good night. They were essential.
John Rosemond: Playing independently
Q: Is it okay to start teaching our 1 year old how to play independently? He screams and cries when I put him in any type of enclosure if he can't get "free" (even when I arrange the furniture in a way that he has a very ample play area). Is there a method to teach him how to play by himself for at least a little bit? It seems I am following him around ...
John Rosemond: Living with Children
Q: It seems our 1 year old is showing willful disobedience. We tell him "no" and try to redirect but he does the same things over and over again. The things in question include turning over and not being cooperative when I'm trying to change him, slapping us in the face, and standing up during bath time. I'm trying to be creative with ways to entertain him and make things fun but am getting weary. Any advice on how I can correct him?
John Rosemond: Dealing with child's negativity
Q: Our 7-year-old son is very negative about everything. He's a middle child, so that may have something to do with it, but everyone else in the family is very happy, positive, optimistic, and so on. He never has anything positive to say about anything. Things the rest of us enjoy he says are "stupid" or "dumb." We raise all of our kids the same, so we don't understand where the negativity is coming from, ...
John Rosemond: Discipline in organized way
One of the reasons-it's probably in the top three reasons, in fact-that parents fail at solving discipline problems is they try to solve too many at once. In so doing, they scatter their disciplinary energy too thinly and end up solving none. The only thing they accomplish is getting more frustrated and more convinced that there is something about their child that renders discipline ineffective-a gene perhaps, inherited from the father (who else?), that causes ...
John Rosemond: Living with Children
American parents have been listening to professional psycho-babblers tell them how to raise children since the late 1960s. I was in graduate school at the time, and my professors thought the babblers were geniuses, sent by some New Age divinity to correct all the egregious wrongs parents had done to children since time immemorial. Children were about to enter a Golden Age in which their opinions would not only be listened to but also taken ...
John Rosemond: Living with children
In the seventh grade I was promoted by my peers from president of the class geek-nerd-brainiac society to, well, if not fully cool, then at least on the way. I had discovered two sports I excelled in-golf and baseball-and the girls had discovered that I was one of the best, if not the best, dancer in the class. My classmates began overlooking the fact that I was a straight-A student, always sported a few pimples, and wore thick glasses.
John Rosemond: Living with children
While working in my secret parenting laboratory, hidden deep beneath the earth's surface and accessible only by me and a small, select team of associates, I recently made what I believe is a huge and history-making breakthrough that promises to greatly improve parenting the world over.
John Rosemond: Living with children
Q: In our city, most of the high school seniors participate in "Senior Beach Week" during spring break. They rent beach houses and condos and party like there's no tomorrow. Alcohol, marijuana, and sex abound. Our friends justify allowing their kids to go by saying they have to be trusted sometime. In truth, we all have good kids who have never given us any trouble. They just want to go and be part of the ...
John Rosemond: Living With Children
Q: Our 18 month old is a table terror! While I'm preparing dinner, she walks around acting like she's starving, but as soon as we sit her in her highchair she takes a few bites and then wants down, screams, cries, and will sometimes throw food. Through all this, our 5- and 3-year-old try to talk to us but can't get a word in for all the chaos. We absolutely dread eating in a restaurant. How should we address her behavior?
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