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  Joani Geltman

  Parenting Expert

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  Joani Geltman, MSW, is a prominent parenting expert who provides home-based parent coaching, speaks publicly on issues relating to child development and parenting, and designs and implements training workshops on parenting and education leadership development. She has four decades of experience helping young people, serving as a social worker, therapist, student advisor, adjunct professor, and youth program director at various schools and organizations.   The author of the best selling book, A Survival Guide To Parenting Teens: Talking to Your Kids About Sextng, Drinking , Drugs, And Other Things That Freak You Out (AMACOM May 20, 2014), Geltman has been featured in, or written for, USA Today and The Boston Globe. Her writings have appeared online at The Washington Post,  Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Mommy & Me, Boston.com, Working Family, Global Post Parenting, and on scores of blogs.  She was also featured as a parenting expert on Better TV, Good Day New York (Fox), Good Day Connecticut (Fox), and Fox-TV in Boston, WBUR’s Radio Boston.   She has served as an adjunct professor for over three decades at Curry College in Milton, MA.  Geltman teaches in the department of psychology, covering child and adolescent development, family psychology, and dysfunctional family life.   Geltman has spoken to thousands of parents, educators, and students at hundreds of schools.  The sought-after speaker delivers more than 40 seminars a year to schools, community groups, businesses, churches, and temples. She has developed seminars such as: Adolescent Psychology The Parent Version, Sexting and Texting What’s A Parent To Do?, Understanding Your Teen’s Drinking and Drug Use