About the authorKaren A. Waldron, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, where she specializes in training teachers to work with at-risk children. She appears regularly on TV and speaks on the radio, describing ways that families can raise healthy children despite modern-day lifestyles and pressures of substance abuse and violence.She has published three university texts and numerous research articles, and presented more than 100 seminars for parents and teachers.