Michael J Redivo

Dr. Michael Redivo has over 25 years of experience in working with parents, families, and children. He has focused his career on empowering families to grow and thrive as well as strengthening organizations that work with children. Dr. Redivo helped launch a private day school for youth with significant emotional, developmental, and behavioral challenges. In addition to his work as a family / child psychologist, he supervises mental health professionals and teaches graduate psychology students.

The most challenging and rewarding role he has served is being a values grounded father and husband. Despite various career accomplishments, Dr. Redivo understands the most important and meaningful life pursuit is that of a father and husband. His book, Values Grounded Parenting, not only includes best practices from parenting research, but also real world examples that provide a practical 'how to' guide.

His purpose in writing this book is to put the joy back into parenting. He recognizes that joy does not mean a stress free experience. Rather, it involves an experience of consistently pursuing a positive vision for raising children and allowing this vision and positive values to guide the growing up process. He has experienced firsthand how practicing values grounded principles provides a loving, secure and stable family culture for children to learn, grow and thrive.