Conservative YouTube channel PragerU shares parenting advice that’s not just outdated, but also pretty terrifying. In this PragerU response video, I want to take a look at their advice, break it down, and talk about why it’s really, REALLY bad.
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(in order of appearance)
PragerU Video
— https://www.prageru.com/video/how-to-get-kids-to-listen/
John Rosemond Articles
— https://www.arcamax.com/homeandleisure/parents/johnrosemond/s-1731780?fs
— http://www.indexjournal.com/lifestyles/columnists/john-rosemond/john-rosemond-obedient-children-are-not-robots/article_8caabc86-5428-5b4b-916d-179598048396.html
— https://www.courant.com/features/hc-parenting-john-rosemond-1231-20141231-story.html
Baumrind and Rebuttal
— http://www.devpsy.org/teaching/parent/baumrind_styles.html
— https://www.alfiekohn.org/rethinking-baumrinds-authoritative-parenting/
Larzalere and Rebuttal
— https://www.parliament.scot/S5_Equal_Opps/equal%20protection%207/JDurrant.pdf
— https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(17)31377-X/fulltext
— https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27055181/
— https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213417300145#bib0020
— https://www.christian.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sweden_smacking.pdf
Pediatrician Groups Info
— https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-college-pediatricians
— https://roanoke.com/archive/john-rosemond-my-beef-with-pediatricians-group/article_e00f9044-8e91-501f-9222-c76d73d9d3d9.html
Everything John Rosemond
— https://www.ncpsychologyboard.org/frequently-asked-questions-faq/
— http://clinicalpsychreading.blogspot.com/2013/08/john-rosemond-license-just-what-makes.html
— https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/parenting/psycho-babble-steals-common-sense-from-parents/ica9yW7qvYk4W8dohuK60H/
— https://www.rosemond.com/Personal-Consultation.html
— https://www.parentguru.com/experts
— https://www.drgretchenslover.com/about
— https://www.socalsem.edu/grad-behavioral-sciences-distinctives/
— http://www.indexjournal.com/lifestyles/columnists/john-rosemond/john-rosemond-parents-shouldnt-slink-to-a-childs-level/article_9d4fddbe-a701-50ca-85fc-659c4fd31315.html
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rosemond
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I mean, my parents raised me if I was equal to them, but they never got on my head level, and they gave me commands, so I was kinda obedient, and I turned out fine!
Stick this video up your @zz. PragerU is one of the best websites EVER, and their 5 minute videos are fare more educational than anything else on the web. Bravo PragerU !!!
I always thought I was teaching my children to be adults. So, I talked to them that way. It worked pretty well. Both graduated from college and are successfully supporting themselves.
"Give them commands"
I instantly thought of terminal commands because im too much if a computer nerd.
Just imagine: "sudo rm -f /trash-from-your-room" if you know you know, otherwise let me explain very broadly: these are linux commands and rm -f means remove forcefully. Sudo grants you complete control.
"Obedient children are happy children."
I was completely obedient, and that didn't stop me from getting hit or yelled at. I wouldn't call that a happy child.
What abusive parents think they teach their children:
-Obedience
-Respect
What they actually teach their children:
-Listening for footsteps
-Lying on the spot
-Hiding things
My parents brought me up and treated me with respect and like I was a fellow human being (the irony is they're both conservatives). I turned out pretty well; I listen to them as they deserve to have me hear them out on issues as parents. What Mr. Rosemond fails to understand is that respect is earned, not given.
Maybe PragerU is why God abandoned us
That dude is an unbiblical hypocritical Danger to children and I can believe anybody would take him seriously
Awful people
2 fucking minutes in and I heard "Bending down to your child does not look authoritative".
What the actual fuck is this? If parents dont treat their own children as fucking human beings, how tf do they expect their child to treat others like human beings?
This is absolutely disgusting. This is a horrible strategy which will either create a literal psychopath or result in the child hating you with every feeling in the world.
This videos 3 years old, and now in multiple states classes can use PragerU as a "learning aid" in the classroom 😀 Isn't that just hellish
11:58 one word: trauma
It's scary that people should believe in this stuff.
I was never locked in any room
He’s so backwards
Thanks!
In the aviation industry, many pilots claim to have learned more during their tenure as an instructor than as a student.
This concept has checked out with me in most fields that I've dabbled in.
So when a person expresses that they have a particular disdain for guiding (instructing, if you will) their own children, it tells me that they are insecure in their own mastery of life skills.
Different children require different parenting styles, of course. But the authoritarian style where parents treat children like numbers? I bet that those parents are the crappy/incompetent low-level managers of the world.
Obedient children don't say whether they're happy or not. They say what the authoritative figure WANTS them to say.
Ive been binge listening to your videos for the past couple of hours now while doing some chores and may i just say I love them: your topics, your insights, your explanations. This one is really special though cause you expressed your contempt by not censoring a curse word at the end. 😂
Enforcing obedience can lead to them being taken advantage of by an authority figure.
The right: Let’s use radical rightwing ideas to fight against radical leftwing ideas!
This doesn’t work, as shown when the left tries to use radical excessive counterproductive amounts of cancel culture, intolerance against intolerance, and such to fight bigotry, it only made them look even more stupid and repelling. And the right is now doing the same. It won’t end well for both sides who resort to radical tactics. Some more moderate tactics such as finding a reasonable middle ground is what is needed to truly win this culture war conflict.
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the absolute entitlement of people like john to demand unconditional respect from a child they chose to have…
If I had john rosemond as a dad i would be dead
The "odd" thing about PragerU is that you can't control or get rid of it. They stand on the side of the parent's control of their own family and directly in the way of state control of children's minds.
I was an obedient and happy child because my parents explained why I shouldn't do certain things and didn't intentionally try to make my life miserable.
Telling people to obey rather than teaching them why something is wrong is how you get people who commit atrocies once they're the ones with authority. And God isn't a solution because people usually just convince themselves that God agrees with them.
I've never heard anything about PU that didn't obliterate its credibility. It's actually impressive just how impossible it is to put PU in a positive light.
4:36 It's like he said never offer an explanation because it'll get picked apart. lol
he literally called a child a it fuck prageru and this dude
You know what else obedient people love? Big Brother — when you simply don't question authority and absolutely worship them, you become a peasant-slave to an already flawed source of power that only wants you to do their bidding.
Him just making his own sources is really a
¨Nice argument senator but why dont you back it up with a source?¨
¨My source is that i made it the fuck up¨
type moment
I can’t believe we are in the year 2024 and people are still trying to defend hitting their children
Transition them… 😅😂… reward them with a participant trophy 🏆….
The editing is like that found in the VHS era
Mommy, who was john rosemond?
The reason why I dont let Grandma meet you
There once was a young boy, living at the border of Austria and Bavaria. Eventhough his mother loved him, his father punished him severely, using corporal violence, and when his beloved brother died, he found no solace in his distanced family. He was alone, hunted by the demons of his childhood. And he went do a darker path.
Do you know him? We Germans do. We all know him.
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