Brandon
Founder, Administrator, and Author
General Topics: Transition to Parenthood, Fathering, and Coparenting
Brandon@parentsareimportant.com
http://brandonmcdaniel.blogspot.com
A graduate student at Penn State University, pursuing his PhD in Human Development and Family Studies. He graduated from Brigham Young University, majoring in Psychology with a minor in Family Life, in 2010. His key interests include the transition to parenthood, the importance of fathers, and effective parenting. He currently works for Project SIESTA, where he and others are examining infant sleep and parent management of their infant's sleep. He is also studying what factors affect paternal well-being across the transition to parenthood. As for personal experience with children and parenting, Brandon and his wife have a beautiful daughter, who has done things all on her own time.
Amy
Author
General Topics: Media, Divorce, and Religion in Child Development
Amy is a wife and stay-at-home mom to a 18-month old little boy. She completed her PhD in Human Development and Family Sciences in 2008. While completing her degree, she realized there was not enough research-based parenting and child development information that was easy to understand for the average parent. Much of the research done by university scholars is not easily accessible to parents. On this blog she hopes to provide thought-provoking and insightful information that will be useful to parents. Her research interests in graduate school focused on religious coping among recently divorced mothers with young children. Currently, she interested in many aspects of child development, including the influence of media, moral development, and the importance of play.
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Becky is currently studying English at Brigham Young University. She is fascinated with literature and feels that it is important for children to have access to good books beginning at an early age. It is because of this that she plans on writing books for children and young adults after graduation. Becky and her husband have a spunky 11 month old who keeps them very busy. Trying to balance motherhood, housekeeping, school and life in general can be difficult, which is why she is excited to share her experiences on Notes on Parenting.
Dyan
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General Topics: Infancy and 8 to 12-year-olds
Dyan Eybergen BA, RN, CPMHN(C) is a child and adolescent psychiatric nurse with a wide range of therapeutic experience, including work in crisis and stabilization, inpatient assessment, outpatient counselling and young offender’s rehabilitation. She received an undergraduate degree in the study of Psychology from the University of Waterloo; a diploma in Health Sciences from Cambrian College and an Advanced Studies in Mental Health Certificate from Mount Royal College, Alberta. She is also a certified Canadian Mental Health/Psychiatric Registered Nurse. Her book, Out of the Mouths of Babes is a silver recipient of the internationally recognized Mom’s Choice Awards. www.dyaneybergen.com
Josh
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General Topic: Fathering
Josh Lockhart, PHEc, is a husband, father and counselor. Currently in the Province of Manitoba Josh is a Professional Home Economist/Human Ecologist. Josh graduated in 2009 with his Bachelor of Human Ecology majoring in Family Social Sciences. Josh has worked as a counselor, fundraiser, columnist and recruiter since graduating. He is currently working towards his Masters of Counseling. Josh has been happily married for five years and has a beautiful daughter and son. You can learn more about Josh at lockingheartstogether.blogspot.com.
Lilly
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General Topics: Motherhood and Women in the Home
Lilly graduated from Brigham Young University in 2004 with a BS in Marriage, Family and Human Development. Lilly has been married for 9 years and is a stay at home mom. Daily she uses the information she learned in college to raise her 4 young children, ages 7, 6, 4 and 2 years. Lilly is dedicated to helping women see the value in mothering while still maintaining a healthy dose of caring for themselves. Lilly blogs on www.happydotmom.blogspot.com where she shares her thoughts on mothering, and also on www.ilovethewaysheblogs.blogspot.com where she gives helpful advice for designing your own blog. Lilly's hobbies include painting with oils and acrylics and creating children's collage wall art.
Sarah
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General Topic: Early Childhood
Sarah has been married to her wonderful husband for 14 years. She is a mom of four, three boys ages 11, 8, 6, and girl age 2. She teaches piano and also a little bit of voice. She loves to cook and involve her kids in the process, and she loves to make people laugh. Sarah also writes for MormonBloggers.com.
Signe
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She is a licensed social worker, author, and Chief Operating Officer of the Life Space Crisis Intervention Institute. She has over ten years of experience working with children, adolescents, and families. Signe presents training workshops across the U.S. for parents and professionals on topics related to child and adolescent mental and behavioral health. Check out Signe’s latest publication, How to Be Angry: An Assertive Anger Expression Group Guide for Kids and Teens
. How to Be Angry is designed to help kids learn how to use assertive communication to express anger effectively. In November 2011, keep your eye out for Signe’s upcoming release, Friendship and Other Weapons: Group Activities to Help Young Girls Aged 5-11 to Cope with Bullying
. Friendship & Other Weapons is about breaking the code of silence that governs conflict in the early school years. By creating safe, open, and fun forums in which group members can talk, learn, and compare experiences, elementary school aged girls gain skills for speaking up when it comes to expressing their feelings and confidence for confronting incidents of cruelty disguised as friendship. Please visit Signe's website at www.signewhitson.com. PAST AUTHORS:
Jenet, PhD
Professor
School of Family Life
Brigham Young University
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Jenet completed a Ph.D. in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota in June, 2007. Since that time she has completed 10 refereed journal publications and five book chapters focusing on the relationship between work and family life and women’s wellbeing. The upper-division course she has instructed for the last 2 years (SFL 371: Work and Relationships in the Home) centers on the significance of household labor and care giving in individual and family wellbeing and gender divisions of household labor and child care responsibilities in the home. She is also currently going through her own transition to parenthood!
Stacey
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A recent graduate from Brigham Young University has a BS in Marriage, Family, and Human Development. She is very interested in finding joy in parenting and in positive discipline. She has also taken an interest in enhancing and staying connected in marriage. She has been married to her husband Chris for 6 1/2 years and they have two beautiful daughters, ages 5 and 2. She is glad for the opportunity to be able to be a stay-at-home mother.
Rebecca
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A graduate of Brigham Young University with a BS in Family, Home, and Social Sciences. Her key interests include taking an active role in parenting, the importance of both a father and mother’s involvement, and how a strong marriage impacts the family. She married her high school sweetheart and best friend just over 3 years ago. They have an active and happy little boy who is 1 year old and are anticipating the arrival of a little girl in May. She loves being a stay-at-home mother.
Jenny
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General Topic: Family Finance
Jenny hails from Alaska and is a recent graduate from Brigham Young University with a degree in Finance. She owns and manages The Mommy Brand (themommybrand.com), an online boutique with handmade baby items. Jenny and her husband, Bret, have one son, Ben. She has a passion for teaching personal finance and loves to help people, especially young families, understand how to attain financial freedom.
Malina
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Malina is mother to four active kids, currently aged 8,6,2 and 0. While she has a master's degree in Mathematics Education from BYU, currently she is lucky to get to focus on being a mother. Malina and her husband have chosen to home school their children and actively work together to be reflective about how they can improve their parenting.
Brooke
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Brooke worked with special needs students for three years at a high school where she learned about managing behaviors and helping students learn and grow. She is currently a stay at home mom of one, and she enjoys reading, crafting, writing and, most of all, spending time with her 18-month-old. Brooke feels the best way to be a better mom is to talk to other parents and enjoys being able to share what she has learned with others on Notes on Parenting.
Linda
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General Topics: Teens, Young Adults, and Grandparenting
Linda is a 2009 graduate from Ellis University (Previously of NYIT) where she received a Bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with focus on Behavioral Management and History. She enjoys writing, blogging, poetry, guitar, and spending time with her six children(aged 13-30) and four grandchildren. Her family career has given her a breadth of leadership opportunities within community, school, church and non-profit organizations. As her family responsibilities shift, she remains grounded to the importance of family communication and its affect on the community as a whole. She hopes to become a published author of family-life stories and poetry. She writes a daily blog of "wisdom" at inmydaysascripturejourney.blogspot.com where she likens prophetic wisdom to her own families daily life.
Sheila
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General Topics: Effective Behavioral Interventions and Disability Awareness
A graduate student at Utah State University pursuing an Ed.S in School Psychology. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 2010 with a degree in Family Life and an emphasis in Human Development. Her key interests include development issues across childhood and adolescence, effective behavioral interventions, and multicultural issues specifically within the schools. She interned in the school system, working with students who struggled either emotionally, socially or behaviorally. She has also worked at an in-care facility for troubled teenagers. Currently, Sheila also works with the Interdisciplinary Disability Awareness Service Learning Center in Logan, Utah.
