About the Author

Linda S. Budd, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, marriage and family therapist, and registered play therapist. In private practice for over thirty-five years, she has watched many clients become happy, healthy adults and parents. She is the author of the highly successful Living with the Active Alert Child and the recently released The Journey of Parenting: Helping Your Child Become a Competent, Caring, Contributing Adult. A well-known speaker in the parenting field, Budd has given hundreds of speeches throughout the country to a variety of professional associations, parent-teacher associations, and early childhood education groups, among countless others. She has been a contributing writer for the Family Information Network for over ten years, has appeared numerous times on television and radio, and has been heavily featured in a wide assortment of nationwide magazines and newspapers. Budd is an adjunct professor in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota.