Breakthrough Parenting: Moving Your Family From Struggle to Cooperation

Children are beautiful jewels that have been entrusted to our care. We have a choice to polish the jewels to their natural brilliance or to dim them. By appreciating and working with the multifaceted talents of our children, we enable them to reach their greatest potential.

The well-known authoritarian and permissive methods for raising children cause power struggles and fail to help children develop the inner guidance they need to think for themselves and to care about others. Breakthrough Parenting instead offers a proven method for raising cooperative, happy, self-confident children. This easy-to-read and practical book, based on Dr. Jayne A. Major's experience with more than 14,000 families, is filled with numerous real-life examples showing Breakthrough Parenting in action. This is a book every parent should have!

1983-2000 Founder and Executive Director, The Parent Connection, Inc., a non-profit family resource center serving primarily high-risk, in-crisis families in Los Angeles.

1983-2000 Creator and Facilitator, weekly Breakthrough Parenting(R) classes offering advanced child-rearing techniques to 14,000 parents.

1983-2000 Private Consultant to individuals involved in child custody disputes; provided counseling, created parenting plans, prepared parents for custody evaluations; worked with attorneys, social workers, forensic evaluators; expert witness.

1983-2000 Lecturer, Continuing Education and Teacher Training. Univ. of Phoenix.

1998 Presenter, "Breakthrough Parenting: Moving From Struggle to Cooperation." L.A. Unified School District Parent Summit.

1995 Presenter, "Winning the Custody War Without Casualties" weekend intensive. California School of Professional Psychology.

1989-1991 Assistant Professor, Family Studies: Marriage and Family Relations; Child Development. CalState University, Los Angeles.

1990 Speaker, "Fathers and Custody - The Value of Parent Education." Santa Monica Bar Association.

1985-1989 Advisor, United Way Metro Committee for the Underserved in L.A.

1984 Staff Program Development: "Assertive Discipline in the Classroom," "Empty Lives: What Can We Do?" L.A. Unified School District.

1982-1984 Parent Educator, Inner City School Readiness Language Development Program, L.A. Unified School District.

1982-1984 Instructor, Effective Parenting, Westchester/Washington Community Adult School, Los Angeles.

1983 Lecturer, Continuing Education and Teacher Training. UCLA, Los Angeles.

CONFERENCES

1999 Speaker "Trends in Family Life Education," World Future Society, Washington D.C.

1999 Speaker "The Value of Family Education in Divided Families" On-Step Institute for Mental Health Research, New York, NY.

1999 Speaker "Think Like a Futurist: Anticipating Change in the 21st Century" Hughes Aerospace Corp.

1998 Speaker, "Creating Successful Parenting Plans," Southern CA Mediators Association

1998 Speaker, "Creating Successful Parenting Plans," On-Step Institute for Mental Health Research, New York, NY.

1998 National Fatherhood Initiative Summit, Washington, D.C.

1997 Speaker, "Think Like a Futurist: Anticipating Change in the 21st Century, Xerox Corporation Management.

1996-1997 Speaker, "Stabilizing High Risk Families in Child Custody Disputes" Child Custody Colloquium and Family Law Symposium, Los Angeles Superior Court.

1996-1997 Speaker, Children's Right's Council Conference, Atlanta, GA.

1993-1996 Speaker, "A History of the Future: Anticipating Change in the 21st Century," World Future Society Conference, Washington D.C.

1994 Family Law Minors' Counsel Training Program, Los Angeles Superior Court.

1994-1998 Founding member, National Fatherhood Initiative Summit, Dallas, TX.

PUBLICATIONS

2000 "Breakthrough Parenting(R): A Revolutionary New Way to Raise Children"

2000 "Stabilizing Families with Parent Education" Aspen Family Law Journal

1998 "Creating a Successful Parenting Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide For The Care of Children of Divided Families"

1995 "Winning the Custody War Without Casualties" with Ron M. Supancic and Thomas Rincker.

1993 "Breakthrough Parenting: Unlock the Secrets to a Great Relationship with your Children" Fairview Press

1988-1989 "Skillful Parenting" column for the Family Information Guide

1985 "Are We Losing By Not Training Parents?" Proceedings of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society

1982 "Responsible Agency: Critique of Three Major Parent Education Programs" (Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA)

EDUCATION

1982 Ph.D., Philosophy of Education, University of California at Los Angeles

1971 M.A., Social and Philosophical Foundations Education, California State University at Northridge

1959 B.A., Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology, Arizona State University