21stCenturyParenting Format: Paperback

The only parenting book based on a school-tested method

As co-founder of Outreach Concern, Inc., one of the largest school-based counseling services in the country, Dr. Rick Capaldi developed a guide to raise kids into confident, independent adults. His "three Rs"—Read your child's environment, Regulate their emotional temperature, and Redirect their behavior—will help parents and teachers steer children toward emotional stability and success. This model has been effectively utilized in counseling over a half-million children and parents in over 900 schools, resulting in the development of cooperative, successful, and highly productive family relationships.

Rick Capaldi, PhD, has been a practicing family therapist for forty years, specializing in working with children, adolescents, and parents. He is a former Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine University's Graduate MFT counseling program and a former instructor of psychology and sociology at Saddleback and Irvine Valley Community Colleges. Dr. Capaldi is President of Capaldi & Associates, which provides executive management assessment and organizational development services worldwide. In 1993, he cofounded Outreach Concern, Inc., a school-based nonprofit agency that has been providing counseling and support services to children and families in Southern California schools for over a quarter of a century.