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| Fri, 07-16-2004 - 12:45pm |
This was an article in my local paper. I linked it from John Rosemond's website.
I usually don't agree with him but I thought he made some good points until he got to part 2. The part about serving your husband gave me the heebie-jeebies.
I was thinking about some of this last night when I was cleaning up after my children again. Why don't I make Zak fold clothes and sweep? Why do I let myself get so frustrated when I can make him help out?
Also, and I might get flamed, but I do think some fear of your parents is good. The little boy across the street stole again and was confined to his room. Obviously, the confinement to your room approach is not working. If I had ever stolen from my parents, the results would have been drastic. Confinement to my room would have been the least of my worries.
I want my children to respect me and to fear my reactions to their misbehavior.
edited to put the link in because I am an idiot! (uneducated, you know and not intelluctually stimulating)
"When death like a gypsy comes

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and for some things dh and I do follow the same rules.
Man!! What kind of gum did she steal to have to do 5 days of EXTRA chores to repay for it?...LOL
Altoid Gum ($2.09 a pack-comes in a tin can)?
Mondo
It cost 1.25.
I guarantee you, that if you, almostfreeof3 or anyone else had tried to raise John according Rosemond's methods, you'd have one of the most defiant, argumentative, least cooperative children you've ever seen. Why? Because if John sees no good purpose to doing something, he flat out WILL NOT DO IT.
It's rather ludicrous to sit there and tell me how "easy" John is, right after numerous people have told me that my explanations are too hard, too complex or too time consuming to be worth the effort. Look, either raising John was easy-peasy and any brain dead moron could have done the same just as well or it wasn't, but it CAN'T be both. If giving explanations is hard, complex and time consuming, then raising him wasn't a matter of "being lucky" with "an easy kid."
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