A trusted family psychologist identifies and then shows parents how to reinforce the ten things that will help children build a strong inner-self--mood mastery, body comfort, passion, friendliness, focus, collaboration, gratitude, clarity, peer smarts, and expressiveness.
Ron Taffel, Ph.D., is a noted child and family therapist and author of the critically acclaimed Parenting by Heart and Why Parents Disagree. He is an award-winning contributing editor to Parents magazine and the founder and director of Family and Couples Treatment Services at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City.
Melinda Blau is an award-winning journalist and the author of Watch Me Fly, Families Apart, Loving and Listening, and Our Turn, as well as the co-author with Dr. Taffel of Parenting by Heart.