CE0951: Law/Lewis Lectureship in Pediatric Dentistry -
Discipline is Leadership, and the Leadership Theory is Not Quite as Complicated as Einstein's Relativity Thing

John Rosemond, MS
Family Psychologist

Course Description:

Morning Session:

In the 1960s and '70s, American parents embraced a new, psychological vision of children and child rearing. This new paradigm, which John calls "postmodern psychological parenting," is the antithesis of the viewpoint that had guided western parents for thousands of years. This 180 degree turn has proven enormously destructive to child, marriage, family, school, and culture. John asserts that many—nearly all, in fact—of today's parenting struggles are the result of parents who unwittingly adopt a parenting paradigm that does not work.

After clearly illustrating the difference between the traditional and modern points of view and demonstrating in the process the bankruptcy of the latter, John outlines an equally clear solution: Parents need but conform their behavior to each of the "Three Seasons of Child Rearing" as they naturally and logically unfold over the term of a child's dependency.

Attendees regularly use such terms as "uplifting," "liberating," and "empowering" to describe this powerful yet immensely entertaining presentation.

Morning Session Objectives - As a result of attending this session, the participant should be able to:

• Outline the differences between traditional and "psychological" parenting.
• Recognize the "seasons" of parenthood and the role and behaviors appropriate to each season.
• Identify what is required of parents during toddlerhood in order to set the disciplinary process "on track."

Afternoon Session:

The so-called "strong-willed child"—oppositional, argumentative, assertively demanding—presents a unique challenge to his or her parents. The adjective is synonymous, after all, with "hard to discipline." In this enlightening and entertaining presentation, John outlines a virtually fail-safe formula for successful discipline of not only the child who is strong-willed, but any child.

The strong-willed child's parents ask, "How can we get our child to stop arguing with us?" John answers that question, giving a prescription he absolutely, positively guarantees will stop arguments forever.

The strong-willed child’s parents ask, "How does one discipline a child who does not want to do what he is told?" John answers that question too, explaining that the secret to effective discipline is found in mastering each of discipline's "Three C's"—communication, consequences, and consistency—and John never fails to impart that mastery to his audience.

The strong-willed child's parents ask, "How can we put an end to discipline problems that have been hounding us for years?" Believe it or not, John answers that question too, and the prescription is practical, not pie-in-the-sky.

Afternoon Session Objectives - As a result of attending this session, the participant should be able to:

• Describe how each of discipline's "Three C's" work in an overall and effective discipline plan.
• Explain what is meant by "leadership discipline."
• Explore how consequences can be used effectively to deal with misbehavior.
• Discuss how to stop arguments between parent and child.

Instructor:

JOHN ROSEMOND received his masters degree in Psychology from Western Illinois University, after which he spent about ten years working as a psychologist in Illinois and North Carolina and directing several mental health programs for children. He went on to spend about ten years in full-time private practice as a family psychologist. Presently, his time is devoted to speaking and writing. During a typical speaking "year" (approximately 8 months), John delivers more than 200 presentations to parent, teacher, and professional groups. His talks are provocative, educational, empowering, and perhaps best of all, entertaining. John promises that his audiences will laugh…a lot.

John's nationally-syndicated parenting column appears weekly in more than 200 papers nationwide, including the Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Hartford Courant, Omaha World-Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Raleigh News and Observer, Albuquerque Journal, and Honolulu Advertiser. It is read by an estimated 15 million people.

The author of ten best-selling books on parenting and family issues, John is currently in the process of writing four more, including "one that will liberate parents from the psychobabble surrounding toilet training, babble that has transformed something simple and straightforward into something unnecessarily stressful and complicated." John's other books include A Family of Value, Because I Said So!, The NEW Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children, and John's most recent book, Parenting by The Book™.

"All that aside," John says, with a smile, "my real qualifications are that I have been married to the same wonderful woman, Willie, for 39 years—a rich marriage that has produced two children and seven well-behaved grandchildren."

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