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Child Behavior/Family Anger: Ron Huxley

Ron Huxley is a Licensed Child and Family Therapist, Author, Speaker, and the Father of Four! He has helped parents find the right tools for the job in every conceivable setting, including corporate boardrooms, private practice, foster homes, school gymnasiums, parenting halls, and even a women's prison.

He has been the quest of the Leeza Show and his parenting tools have been a regular link on Oprah.com and many other online parenting web sites. He has been interview as a parenting expert or written articles for Child Magazine, Pregnancy Magazine, Readers Digest, Better Home and Gardens, Family PC, BabyMag, Divorce Magazine, The Recovery Journal, Jump, and many online parenting magazines. 

Ron is an entertaining and educational speaker. He is available for keynote addresses, conference presentations, and corporate workshops on parenting and anger management. His full day workshop on getting A.N.G.E.R. S.M.A.R.T. has been presented to various groups and organizations on a national basis and the material is begin developed into a new book. See his AngerToolbox Site by clicking here! See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Family Transitions: Rita Barber

Rita Barber and her family reside in the Monterey Bay area of California. She and her husband are blessed with two terrific kids, ages 14 and 9. Rita conducts workshops for Women in Transition (“We are always in transition!”), as well as Career Exploration workshops for adults and teens. Additionally, Rita hosts a local cable program, “The Power Within You”, which examines positive self-directions and ideas to pursue in our lives, along with motivational speaking on those subjects. You can read more about her different programs by visiting her website. 

Rita knows the challenges of combining career and family, but with some careful planning tools, a little cooperation, a loving attitude, and some help from up above she manages to rise to each occasion and would love to help others do it, too! See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Legal Issues: Jean Mahserjian

Jean Mahserjian received her juris doctorate, magna cum laude, in 1985 from Albany Law School at Union University.  After holding various legal positions, Jean opened her own office in 1991 and has practiced primarily in the fields of matrimonial and family law since that time. Her office provides services encompassing all issues pertaining to divorce, separation, child custody, child support, spousal support, and property distribution.

Since 1995, Jean has been counsel to the Town of Clifton Park Industrial Development Agency. Jean is a 1977 graduate of Colonie Central High School. She received her undergraduate degree in 1981 in History with honors, from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Jean resides, with her husband and three children, in Clifton Park New York. She is a member of the Family Law Section of the New York Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Saratoga County Bar Association. Visit her personal site here or go to her "Online Divorce" site here. See past legal tools for parents - click here or read advice from this engineer.

Early Childhood Education: Barbara Caggiano

Barbara is a single mother of a wonderful son. Currently working towards finishing
a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences; with an emphasis on social sciences and cultural studies. Other degrees include and Associates of Arts and Science degree and also a Technical
Arts Degree in Radiological Technology. See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Preschoolers/Day Care: Betty Farber

Betty Farber, M.A., M.Ed., has been an early childhood specialist for 30 years. She was director and teacher of early childhood Programs in St. Louis, Missouri, and Long Island, New York, and Early Childhood Educator at the Preschool for Communicatively Impaired Children at the University of Memphis. She later became Coordinator of Child Development at LaGuardia College of the City University of New York. See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Mental Health: Caryl Frawley

Caryl served three terms in her county legislature, participating in social services and mental health subcommittee's. She is also the president of the Mental Health Association Board of Directors, not to mention being active in numerous advisory or board member positions in her local community. See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Frugal Parenting: Kim Tilley

Kim Tilley, a tightwad at heart, is the mother of three active boys and the founding editor of Frugal-Moms.com. 

Frugal by force and later by choice, Kim cut her income by 60% to stay at home with her children and discovered that anyone can live better for less. Her work has appeared in print publications such as The Tightwad Gazette. In her free time, she entertains herself by chasing kids and finding ways to create something from nothing! See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Attention Deficit Disorder: Judy Soules

Judy Soules is a working mother of three elementary children.  She and her husband of 14 years live in a small New England hamlet. Together they care for two of their three children diagnosed with ADHD.  Judy has had ADHD all of her life and while she struggles with it occasionally, she has learned to channel her "hyper" tendencies into productive ways.  She is treating her children without prescription medication via diet and behavioral methods.  She address parents issues on ADHD from a practical standpoint. See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Step Parenting: Karon Goodman

Karon Goodman has written extensively about stepfamilies for various print and online publications. Her book for step moms, "The Step mom's Guide to Simplifying Your Life," will be available in May, 2002, and her ebook for step moms is available now (click here). Karon maintains a site for step moms, writes a monthly column, "The Stepmom's Side room" (click here) for Momscape.com, and publishes a monthly newsletter, "The Step parenting Journey" (click here). Visit Karon's site for lots of freebies, articles, resources and more. Write to Karon at karon@karongoodman.com . See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Spiritual Parenting: Mia Cronan

Mia Cronan and her husband live in Pennsylvania with their three daughters,
ages four, three, and one. Mia is the owner and editor of MainStreetMom
which began as a means to offer at-home mothers the affirmation they need when leaving their careers to be full-time mommies. She also writes for her church newsletter and is active in parish activities.

Mia spent 12 years in hotel management and went through all the familiar feelings when leaving her career behind. It was lonely, exhausting, and oftentimes thankless, but there is nowhere else she'd rather be, than with her children at home. See this Family Engineers Bio page or read advice from this engineer.

Generation X,Y, and Z : Reverend Russ

Who is Rev. Russ Chamberlain? He is a caring Christian who has worked with children, youth and their families for over 25 years in various situations from church camps; ecumenical youth rallies to runaway shelters and residential schools. He is a songwriter and song leader. He can entertain children, youth and adults with music that he has gleaned from the world and created during his journey of faith.

He is a jr. high and sr. high youth group consultant who has been trained by
Group Publications to help churches evaluate and strengthen their youth
ministries. He is founder of 5 C Ministries, a ministry, which helps people look at the Choices they make, the Consequences of their choices and provides an avenue or opportunity to Change the choices and consequences if they desire to change while they are in a Caring Christ centered environment. He is an ordained United Church of Christ minister who is available to assist churches and their pastors by providing pulpit supply, solo work, entertainment for church suppers, youth and family nights, retreats and lockins and workshops. He has been an international host "father " to thirteen young men from France, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea and Germany through the Youth For Understanding Program. He has been a foster father for 13 young men between the ages of 11 to 19 years old.
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Babies and Toddlers: Lisa Schulman

Lisa Schulman and family live in San Rafael, California. She has two children, Annalise and Julia, ages 5 years and 15 months respectively. Lisa was recently selected as a family expert by Hallmark to judge their One-in-a-Million Mother's Day Essay Contest. She has written hundreds of articles for parenting websites, including iVillage's parentsplace.com, kidshealth.org and momsonline.com. Last year, she worked for womensforum.com as a Senior Content Producer in the Baby and Family Channels. To view some of her parenting contributions, please visit her online resume at http://www.LisaSchulman.com. Currently, Lisa is working on a young adult novel and is a freelance writer for national parenting magazines. Read advice from this engineer.

Parents Work Bench Moderator: Pat Linback

Pat Linback, AKA "linbap" is the 40-something year old mother of 3 grown children, and 2 elementary school age children. Also, somewhat doting grandmother of 2. She was married and divorced before she was 21 and was left to raise 2 small children on her own. With the help of government grants, she attended nursing school, graduating with honors in 1981. Since then, she has worked with long-term dialysis patients and as a nurse for Project Head Start. During this time, she also taught CPR classes, self breast examination and was part of the Red Cross Disaster Action Team. In 1987, she met and married her husband of 14 years, and gained a 6 year old son. Later, they added 2 more sons, to make up the grand total of 5. When they joined their church, she was immediately put in charge of the
church nursery. Go figure. She has more experience than she ever thought possible surviving depression, miscarriage, a pregnant teen, teens in general and keeping up with several children (and a husband) with ADHD.
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