Beth Falk, Ph.D.

There is no magic to Kazdin Parent Management Training. It takes root in decades of accumulated research on how to develop positive behaviors, eliminate undesired behaviors,and achieve greater peace in your home. It will change not only your child's behavior but your own.

Helping children recognize and correct their thinking mistakes is far more powerful than providing repeated reassurance.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Parents don’t make mistakes because they don’t care, but because they care so deeply.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.