Dana McDermott is an assistant professor at the School for New Learning at DePaul University. She has worked for over two decades in the Chicago area, nationally and internationally in the area of parent and family development. In Chicago she has been involved in minority parent leadership and in implementing parent education programs for children in schools from K-12 and for their parents. She serves on two national boards: Prepare Tomorrow s Parents an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting parenting education in schools and the National Parenting Education Network dedicated to s...