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About the Authors

A consultant and trainer to more than sixty U.S. independent and public schools, KIM JOHN PAYNE, M.Ed., has been a school counselor, adult educator, consultant, researcher, and educator for nearly thirty years and a private family counselor for more than fifteen years. He regularly gives keynote addresses at international conferences for educators, parents, and therapists and runs workshops and training sessions around the world. In each role, Payne has been helping children, adolescents, and families explore issues such as social difficulties with siblings and classmates, attention and behavioral issues at home and school, and emotional issues such as defiance, aggression, addiction, and low self-esteem. A partner of the Alliance for Childhood in Washington, D.C., he has also consulted for educational associations in South Africa, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Payne has worked extensively with the North American and U.K. Waldorf educational movements. He is currently project director of the Waldorf Collaborative Counseling Program at Antioch University New England and the Codirector of an extensive research program that is exploring and developing a drug-free approach to attention-related disorders. His Social Inclusion Approach, a program aimed at understanding and breaking the patterns of teasing and bullying, has been implemented in hundreds of schools. Australian born, he now lives with his wife, two children, and his in-laws in Harlemville, New York. For more information, visit his website at
www.thechildtoday.com
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Simplicity Parenting
is one of several books LISA M. ROSS has written. She has been involved in publishing for twenty years, as an editor and literary agent, and now exclusively as a writer. She lives in Columbia County, New York, with her husband and her two children. More information about her work is available at
www.lisamross.com
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Copyright © 2009 by Kim John Payne

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