Rachel Biale has been in practice as a parenting consultant/coach for over 40 years.She earned a BA and MA in Jewish History at UCLA and a Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University. She worked as a clinical social worker for over 30 years, including a parenting counseling private practice. She wrote a parenting advice column for the J.Weekly (the Bay Area Jewish community's paper) for 3 years. She's collected her "parenting wisdom" in this book.She has also published several other books in other fields, including a scholarly work, Women and Jewish Law (1984), a memoir, Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood (2018), Lost and Found (2020), a historical novel, and a joint memoir with her husband, Aerograms Across the Ocean: A Love Story in Letters 1970-72 (2020)