About the Author:
Janis Keyser is a teacher, parent educator, program director, and speaker specializing in early childhood and family development. She teaches in the early childhood education department at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, and has been conducting workshops for parents and teachers for more than thirty-five years. Janis earned a Master's degree in human development from Pacific Oaks College and is a certified trainer in the WestEd Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers.
She is the author of From Parents to Partners: Building a Family-Centered Early Childhood Program, published by Redleaf Press, and the coauthor of Becoming the Parent You Want to Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years. Janis has also developed two sets of parenting and teaching videos on communication and positive discipline for two- to five-year-olds and for school-age children.