Family psychologist John Rosemond answers parents' questions on his website at www.rosemond.com.
Articles from John Rosemond
The Repugnancy of the Word "Like"
June 11, 2013
I will tolerate repetitious misuses of “like” when I’m talking with a person with whom I have no interest in relationship, but I will not tolerate even one such misuse with my grandchildren. Read more »
Children and Gifted & Talented Education
June 4, 2013
Q: Our 9-year-old daughter is going to the fourth grade next school year. She loves school and has always done very well. She recently took a series of tests and we’ve learned that she qualifies for the gifted and talented program. When we told her, she ... Read more »
Holding Children Back A Grade
May 21, 2013
Q: Our son’s fifth birthday is in August. He did just fine, socially and academically, in preschool, but the counselor at the school he’s slated to attend has recommended that we hold him back a year because of his late birthday. She says that kids with ... Read more »
The Stone Age and Golden Age of Parenting
May 7, 2013
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, ... Read more »
Children and Independent Play
April 30, 2013
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 ... Read more »
The Typical Actions of a 1-Year-Old
April 23, 2013
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 ... Read more »
Negative 7-Year-Old?
April 16, 2013
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. Read more »
The Use of Disciplinary Math
April 9, 2013
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 ... Read more »
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