"John Rosemond" has authored 14 parenting books, pamphlets and writes a nationally syndicated column on parenting.

Rosemond grew up in Charleston, SC, and the suburbs of Chicago. He attended Western Illinois University, graduating in 1971 with a Masters Degree in Community Psychology. From 1971 to 1980, Rosemond worked as a psychologist and program director at various mental health centers in Illinois, Iowa, and North Carolina. He began writing his newspaper column in 1976, while Director of the Early Intervention Program at the Gaston-Lincoln Mental Health Center in Gastonia, NC, where he and his wife had moved that same year with their two children, Eric and Amy. In 1978, the Charlotte Observer purchased the column and put it into syndication a year later. It now appears weekly in over 200 newspapers in the USA. From 1980 to 1990, John was in private practice as a family psychologist.

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Today, you see kids 5, 6, 8 throwing tantrums ... having to be dragged out of the store by their parents. Even worse, not being dragged out of the store by their parents. You folks think this is normal.

I think what's happening is we are failing to equip children with the skills that they need - the emotional skills as well as the practical skills.

What happens is that the mother spends so much time with the child that the father's role ends up being a parenting aid.

By age 3, a child has arrived to one of two conclusions: It is his job to pay attention or it his parents' job to pay attention.