Building Confidence In Your Child

James C. Dobson, PhD, hosts the daily radio program Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk. A licensed psychologist and marriage, family, and child counselor, he is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. For fourteen years Dr. Dobson was an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, and he served for seventeen years on the attending staff of Children's Hospital Los Angeles in the Division of Child Development and Medical Genetics. He earned a PhD from the University of Southern California (1967) in the field of child development. He is the author of more than fifty books, including The New Dare to Discipline, The New Strong-Willed Child, When God Doesn't Make Sense, Night Light, Bringing Up Boys, and the New York Times best seller Bringing Up Girls. Heavily involved in influencing governmental policies related to the family, Dr. Dobson was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the National Advisory Commission to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He has also served on the Attorney General's Advisory Board on Missing and Exploited Children, the Department of Health and Human Services' Panel on Teen Pregnancy Prevention, and the Commission on Child and Family Welfare. He was elected in 2008 to the National Radio Hall of Fame, and in 2009 he received the Ronald Reagan Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Dobson has been married to Shirley for sixty years, and is the father of two grown children, Danae and Ryan, and the grandfather of Lincoln and Luci Rose. He resides in Colorado.