About this ebook
The Birthday Rules provides a fun and flexible framework of an annual review process combined with a structure for increasing permissions, responsibilities and conversations. We suggest using a child's birthday as not only a time to celebrate, but also as an excellent opportunity to have important conversations, grant desired permissions and explain the responsibilities that go along with those permissions.
The Birthday Rules offers a structure to help with one of the most important tasks parents have—creating a safe environment to communicate and demonstrate unconditional love.
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About the author
Jeffrey Wald is a serial entrepreneur having directly raised three companies and as an advisor and investor helped to raise nearly a hundred more. Jeff is the founder and president of Work Market, the world's leading software for managing on-demand labor. His previous companies include Spinback, sold to Salesforce (NYSE - CRM). Jeff was a Managing Director at hedge fund Barington Capital and started his career at JP Morgan. Jeff has an MBA from Harvard University and a MS and BS from Cornell University.
Rachel Marsh, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in child psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Marsh directs the Cognitive Development and Neuroimaging Laboratory where she studies brain, cognitive, and emotional development during childhood and adolescence and investigates the neural and behavioral underpinnings of child and adolescent psychopathology. Much of her research is aimed at understanding neurodevelopmental trajectories of disorders and problems that arise during childhood and adolescence.
