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 truths that people did naturally before the "new science of parenting": * Parents aren't their children's friends; they are their leaders. * Parents are at the center of a family-not kids. * Your marriage must come before your children. Each chapter 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. From issues such as self-esteem and discipline to television and chores, this straightforward guidance will facilitate a return to parent-centered families where children are raised into responsible adults.

Discusses a plan for child rearing based on authority, responsibility, and respect, and emphasizes the importance of limiting television viewing time.

Revised and expanded, this new edition will help parents of young children develop confidence in the decisions they'll make.

Fixing Columbine uses the 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, as a metaphor for the much larger, and largely silent, epidemic of childhood dysfunction that has swept the nation in the last thirty years, claiming as its victims approximately 15 to 25 million American children annually. Using both a child development lens and comparative analysis, the book first describes the causes of the epidemic which include--for the affected children--absent adults, toxic media exposures, dysfunctional peers, and an anti-social educational environment. It then tackles the question how to fix it. The book argues that classical liberal principles as represented in the constitutional doctrines of parental autonomy and free speech simultaneously enabled the epidemic and impede the most obvious law-based solutions. It concludes with a partial answer in the public schools as they perform their original and still-salient communitarian function.

For the first time ever-the amazing story of Aishwarya Rai, the woman who has mesmerized the world.

Is the most powerful democracy in the world losing the war to win the hearts of the Muslim world? Is it too late to change this perception? An expert answers in this thought provoking book.

To find help for struggling parents, Dr. Paul Faulkner--renowned family counselor and popular speaker--interviewed 30 successful families who have managed to raise faithful kids while also maintaining demanding careers. The invaluable strategies and methods he gleaned are now available in this powerful book delivered in Dr. Faulkner's warm, humorous style.

Are you preparing your teenager to leave the nest? It has been said that the ultimate goal of parenting is to work yourself out of a job. But if you are like most parents of teenagers, your ultimate goal is to just make it through the day. You probably aren't thinking that far ahead. Besides, you probably can't imagine your children ever surviving on their own-without you! Every parent since Adam and Eve has harbored serious doubts about their offsprings' ability to become responsible, self-reliant adults. For many parents today, those doubts have turned to sheer panic. In Cleared for Takeoff!, Wayne Rice offers 50 clear, bite-size nuggets of wisdom to help you navigate the course and instill the four R's-Respect, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Reverence-into your teenager. They include: Be a matchmaker Find some common ground Influence their influencers Provide rites of passage Become a mentor Discover their passion Go ballistic for the right reasons Tackle temptation Cleared for Takeoff! is the handbook that will help you stay calm and confident as a parent while charting your teenager's course to success. And, it will help you enjoy the time you have with your teenager at home a whole lot more!

Through two decades of personal in-depth interviews with hundreds of mothers from across the United States, the authors explore the Mother Crisis as a condition that is killing women's spirits. This surprisingly frank work tells their stories so that many others can better understand the conflicts they are experiencing themselves. Ms. Villani and Ms. Ryan sharply contrast evolving motherhood ideals to women's views of themselves as mothers today.