John Rosemond on "Hyphenated" children

I am a big fan of John Rosemond and his "old-fashioned" style on parenting and family life. He is to the world of child-rearing what Dave Ramsey is to the world of personal finance. He "teaches" you all the "common-sense" stuff your grandma knew but that many of us lost in our postmodern, liberal culture.

Anyway, his weekly column this week focuses on raising "hyphenated" children. I thought this would be a great article because we get a double hyphen in our children since they are adopted-biracial-children. And, as always, he said exactly what I believe in a much more eloquent fashion. Basically, "hyphens" don't matter.

All children should be raised according to common principles, foremost of which is that parents should balance love and discipline in training children toward becoming productive, responsible members of society. Maintaining said balance requires that a parent's love be disciplined and that discipline reflect love and desire for the best interests of the child. Commonsense wraps itself neatly around the word "child"; it does not wrap itself well at all around words like "adopted." Adjectives are much more slippery than nouns, after all."