Dr. Linda S Budd is a licensed psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist (approved supervisor) and registered play therapist (supervisor). She has been in private practice for over 30 years, and has watched many of her clients become healthy, happy adults (and healthy, happy parents). Dr. Budd is the author of Living With the Active Alert Child (Parenting Press), now in its third edition. This title has sold over 50,000 copies: 35,000 in its Parenting Press editions, and more than 15,000 in its earlier Prentice-Hall edition. A well-known speaker in the parenting field, Dr. Budd has