The New Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children
by John Rosemond

Renowned and respected family psychologist, John Rosemond blames child-centered parenting books from recent decades for creating a generation of dependent, often defiant children. He sets the record straight in The New Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children, an updated version of his highly successful book published more than fifteen years ago.

Booms in technology and mass media have created significant changes in society in the last two decades. The text in this revised book has been thoroughly updated to reflect today’s society, yet the foundation of Rosemond’s timeless and effective approach remains constant. He encourages families to return to tried-and-true, fundamental parenting methods that people did naturally before the arrival of the “new science of parenting”

- Parents aren’t their children’s friends; they are their leaders.
- Parents are at the center of the family - not kids.
- Your marriage must come before your children.

Each chapter of the The New Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children includes easy-to-relate-to questions from parents, which Rosemond answers with both common sense and a sense of humor. For families feeling overwhelmed by competing advice about parenting, this book will ground them with logical, proven approaches to the most significant challenges parents face today. Covering issues from self-esteem and discipline to television and chores, this straightforward guide will facilitate a return to parent-centered families where children are raised into responsible adults.

Other Books by John Rosemond: Teen-Proofing: Fostering Responsible Decision Making in Your Teenager Raising a Nonviolent Child Because I Said So! A Collection of 366 Insightful and Thought-Provoking Reflections on Parenting and Family Life Parent Power! A Common-Sense Approach to Parenting in the 90’s and Beyond Ending the Homework Hassle Making the “Terrible” Twos Terrific! To Spank or Not to Spank A Family of Value John Rosemond’s New Parent Power! Family Building: The Five Fundamentals of Effective Parenting

This completely revised and updated edition of the parenting classic urges contemporary parents to follow six fundamental points for raising happy, healthy children:

Point 1: The secret to raising a happy, successful child is to give more attention to your marriage than you give to your child.

Point 2: The clue to proper parenting is to be both authoritatively loving and lovingly authoritative. In the real world, there is not possibility of a truly democratic relationship between parents and children - not as long as the children live at home and rely on parents for emotional, social, and economic protections.

Point 3: Our job as parents is to socialize our children. In order for children to become successful at the three R’s of reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic, their parents must first teach them the three R’s of respect, responsibility, and resourcefulness.

Point 4: Frustration isn’t necessarily bad for children. In fact, a certain amount is absolutely essential to healthy character formation and emotional growth.

Point 5: Children need forms of play and exercise that require imagination, initiative, creativity, intelligence, resourcefulness, and self-reliance. Making do is not only the essence of truly creative play - which is itself the essence of childhood - it’s also the story of the advancement of the human race.

Point 6: Television, computers, and video games are constantly blinking, tasteless, odor-free counterfeits of the real world. Too much of their use encumbers children’s development and is unhealthy for the family as a unit, so parents need to start early and limit their children’s exposure.