Caron Goode has been breathing new life into parenting skills for families for more than 30 years. As a psychotherapist and educator, Goode works with children and their parents to discover each youngster’s innate gifts and to nurture them with joy, common sense and a mindbody connectedness that enriches and benefits parents and child.
Countering the influences of invasive media and technology, Goode advises parents, grandparents and caregivers on the ways to help children mature into adults. “Each child comes into the world with a potential, a talent,” says Goode. “Usually, the child recognizes his personal roadmap and exhibits appropriate temperaments. Our opportunity as parents and models is to serve as guides who can show the child how to solve problems creatively, cope with stress, and use self-dialogue, imagery and music to thrive and live his or her childhood dreams.”
Goode has written four books on child development, plus two monographs, and has collaborated with two other authors to write two more books. Read excerpts from her latest, Nurture Your Child's Gift, on her site, Inspired Parenting. In 2003, she releases Help Kids Cope with Stress & Trauma. Her articles have appeared in more than 200 national newspapers, including Colorado Parent, The Edge, Equilibrium, Convergence, The Joyful Child Magazine, Connecting Link magazine and more than a dozen websites. Goode has been quoted as an expert in such publications as Energy Magazine, Black Family Digest and Better Homes and Gardens.
With her husband, Tom Goode, ND, Caron directs Inspired Living International, Inc., an education and training organization in Tucson, Arizona. There, they regularly conduct classes in health and lifestyle management and professional certification.
Goode graduated with a Doctoral degree in education in 1983 from George Washington University, Washington D.C. In addition, she holds the following: Licensed Certified Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and Diplomat of the American Psychotherapy Association. Her interest in childhood development began at her first professional position when she taught special education children and later worked as a research consultant at the National Headquarters of Special Olympics in Washington, D.C. Since then, she has worked with children and families in private psychotherapy practice, and has designed empowerment seminars for parents, professionals and corporations, consulted for public and private school programs, conducted research in mindbody approaches to lifestyle, while writing and publishing for professional journals as well as major mass media.
She often conducts seminars and workshops, gives keynote speeches and shares her insights about children on radio and television.
Caron Goode and her husband live in Tucson, Arizona. She is the mother of one daughter.
HTMAF is honored to offer Dr. Goode's column on "Building Blocks: Parenting the Whole Child."
