A practicing pediatrician for 23 years and director of the International Family Clinic in Burlington, North Carolina for the past 16, Dr. Rosemary Stein is a highly-regarded expert in childhood development. In "Who Needs a Village? It's a Mom Thing" Dr. Stein explains how modern parenting has created a generation of children lacking the confidence and skills to succeed in the real world - and tells parents (and moms especially) what they need to do to get their kids back on track. Raised in both America and her parents' native Dominican Republic, Dr. Stein reveals how her perspective was shaped by her own experiences growing up in those very different cultures. With unflinching honesty, she discusses the personal struggles - and occasional failures - that helped lead to the understandings about children and their needs that have proven so successful in her own practice. Above all, she says, moms must learn to reclaim their innate power; ensuring that they can no longer be bullied by societal pressures, or other parents or, as is all too often the case, their own children. As its title suggests, "Who Needs a Village? It's a Mom Thing" takes on much that in our increasingly undemanding society has become conventional parenting wisdom. It pulls no punches in its insistence that no job is more important than thatof a parent - or in its message that that job cannot be done nearly as well by anyone else. But her overriding concern is to build sturdier children by reversing the current disastrous trend, and she is ready and willing to take the heat.
About the Author: Dr. Stein is the owner and founder of IFC Pediatrics. A native of New York, Dr. Fernandez Stein completed her high school as an exchange student in Montreal, Canada where she became fluent in French. She attended medical school in the Dominican Republic, and completed her pediatric residency in New Jersey. Dr. Fernandez Stein has nearly twenty years of experience in the practice of pediatrics. Dr. Fernandez Stein's passion is helping children. She founded the Mustard Seed Club of Alamance to help children with tutoring and basic religious instruction. She also founded the Soccer in Scouting clinic pack that trains 15 -20 boys each year in scouting and soccer. Dr. Fernandez Stein was recognized in a national contest for pediatricians doing good deeds for the community in which she placed second. She is an Alamance Community College Trustee since 2008. Her focus is to increase the college graduation rates of Alamance students. Dr. Fernandez Stein starred in a commercial on the Affordable Care Act that made national news. She has been featured in numerous publications citing her concern over the danger of moving to a single-payer healthcare system and the unintended consequences of medicaid expansion. She has also been featured several times on WFMY News 2.