Parenting With Courage and Uncommon Sense (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781506092379)

Linda E. Jessup, R.N., M.P.H., F.N.P., founded the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP) in 1982 and directed it until 2000. A family nurse practitioner with a background in anthropology, Linda is fascinated by the pursuit of healthy relationships among people of every age and culture. Once a "desperate parent" herself, Linda discovered an Adlerian Family Resource Education Center in 1975. Using this practical and inspiring approach, she and her husband raised three children, while adding four foster teenagers to the mix, one of whom they adopted. Linda founded PEP and developed most of the curricula and materials used in PEP classes today. While growing PEP, Linda taught, wrote, and networked; hosted a radio talk show for nine years; and presented as many as 50 original parenting talks and workshops per year. Linda has published numerous columns for parenting newsletters and magazines, as well as writing chapters and larger segments of nursing books. Emory Luce Baldwin, M.S., Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist, has been a parent educator for over 20 years. She brought her long-standing interest in families and parenting to PEP in 1993, when she was looking for new skills to help her with her own children. Since then, she has taught hundreds of classes for parents of babies, teenagers, and all ages in between. As one of PEP's most experienced class leaders, Emory frequently facilitates Open Forum Counseling, an Adlerian model in which she works with a family before an audience of parents and children who wish to improve their response to a common family problem such as power struggles or messy rooms. Alone and in collaboration with her colleagues at PEP, Emory developed and presented many talks and classes, including "Setting Limits with Extra-Challenging Children," "Motivating Children to Succeed," and "Helping Discouraged and Anxious Children." An award-winning writer, Emory frequently writes about parenting topics for local and national publications. For years she has written a monthly advice column for the Voice newspapers of Takoma Park and Silver Spring, Maryland. In her family therapy practice, Emory serves families with children, adolescents, and young adults in the Washington, D.C.