Brian P, who wrote:
Lovely Mosaics
The color of autumn leaves
Brings wisdom for life
Thank you for participating everyone! Sorry I didn't get this up until now.
In Him,
Ryan
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Win A Mosaic Bible For FREE!
Here's your chance to win your own copy of the Mosaic Bible for free!
All you have to do is write a haiku about why you want it and I'll pick my favorite one. A haiku is a simple poem made up of three lines; the first is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 and the third is 5.
Here's an example:
Reading the bible
is my favorite thing to do
I need a new one
That one probably wouldn't win, but it works.
So, write away (post here or on the Facebook post) and then I'll pick a winner on OCTOBER 22nd.
The winner will have a gift certificate sent to them that they can use at their local Christian bookstore to get their copy.
Good luck, poets!
All you have to do is write a haiku about why you want it and I'll pick my favorite one. A haiku is a simple poem made up of three lines; the first is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 and the third is 5.
Here's an example:
Reading the bible
is my favorite thing to do
I need a new one
That one probably wouldn't win, but it works.
So, write away (post here or on the Facebook post) and then I'll pick a winner on OCTOBER 22nd.
The winner will have a gift certificate sent to them that they can use at their local Christian bookstore to get their copy.
Good luck, poets!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Well-Behaved Child by John Rosemond
John Rosemond's “The Well-Behaved Child” is old school. Rosemond tells us that our grandmother could have written this book. That is, if your grandmother is demeaning and thinks she's the best grandmother in the whole world.
Unfortunately, the few positive aspects of this book are lost in the sea of Rosemond's war against the psychological establishment. He spends the majority of his time attacking and belittling the “psychobabblers” that came on the parenting scene in the '60s and '70s. He also has no shortage of “self-confidence,” declaring that he talks with more parents than anyone in the entire world. And he makes it clear that he has little regard for the intelligence of children. Overall, he comes off as self-important and quite demeaning, in my opinion.
He disregards virtually every current technique or practice as ineffective "psychobabble," a word he uses on what seems like every other page. Rather, he prefers the methods our grandparents would be familiar with. “Because I said so” is one of the most effective phrases a parent can give to their children in Rosemond's opinion because parenting is about leadership, not relationship. At times, his advice seems just as childish as the behavior it's supposed to correct. For instance, the Piling On technique (pages 105-109), where you essentially make things horrible for your child with no end in sight, with the apparent goal of getting them to surrender out of sheer exhaustion. The example he uses makes the parent look more immature than the child. And then there's “The Doctor,” a technique he claims to have created and one he thinks is quite brilliant. The point is to correct your child's behavior by lying to them. Your kid doesn't want to eat? Tell them you talked to the The Doctor and he said it's because of a lack of sleep and they need to go right to bed. I honestly thought it was a joke for a while, until I saw the testimonies of “real people” he included to bolster our faith in his technique's effectiveness.
At the very end of the book, he gives 7 pieces of advice that I thought were decent, but by then it was too late. At one point he says that effective parenting is about “communication, consequences and consistency.” If the book echoed this sentiment throughout, without the demeaning and combative overtones, I think he would have been right on target. As it stands, this is not a book I'll go back to for help any time soon. In fact, as a parent of three children under six years of age, it scares me to think other parents will buy into these methods.
(Thomas Nelson’s Book Review Blogger program http://brb.thomasnelson.com/)
Unfortunately, the few positive aspects of this book are lost in the sea of Rosemond's war against the psychological establishment. He spends the majority of his time attacking and belittling the “psychobabblers” that came on the parenting scene in the '60s and '70s. He also has no shortage of “self-confidence,” declaring that he talks with more parents than anyone in the entire world. And he makes it clear that he has little regard for the intelligence of children. Overall, he comes off as self-important and quite demeaning, in my opinion.
He disregards virtually every current technique or practice as ineffective "psychobabble," a word he uses on what seems like every other page. Rather, he prefers the methods our grandparents would be familiar with. “Because I said so” is one of the most effective phrases a parent can give to their children in Rosemond's opinion because parenting is about leadership, not relationship. At times, his advice seems just as childish as the behavior it's supposed to correct. For instance, the Piling On technique (pages 105-109), where you essentially make things horrible for your child with no end in sight, with the apparent goal of getting them to surrender out of sheer exhaustion. The example he uses makes the parent look more immature than the child. And then there's “The Doctor,” a technique he claims to have created and one he thinks is quite brilliant. The point is to correct your child's behavior by lying to them. Your kid doesn't want to eat? Tell them you talked to the The Doctor and he said it's because of a lack of sleep and they need to go right to bed. I honestly thought it was a joke for a while, until I saw the testimonies of “real people” he included to bolster our faith in his technique's effectiveness.
At the very end of the book, he gives 7 pieces of advice that I thought were decent, but by then it was too late. At one point he says that effective parenting is about “communication, consequences and consistency.” If the book echoed this sentiment throughout, without the demeaning and combative overtones, I think he would have been right on target. As it stands, this is not a book I'll go back to for help any time soon. In fact, as a parent of three children under six years of age, it scares me to think other parents will buy into these methods.
(Thomas Nelson’s Book Review Blogger program http://brb.thomasnelson.com/)
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