“My first marriage broke down with two children because I gave them ALL my time. Now, with my lovely new hubby and a set of twins, all six of us laugh more than ever, due to my husband and I balancing time for US, as well as them!”
–from Gayle in Leeds, England

These days, we parents seem to be marrying our children instead of our spouses, because the truth is, we may find it easier to be with our kids than our partners. But overparenting leads to spoiled, demanding children with a multitude of special needs.

The solution? If we improve our marriages, it reduces the anxiety in our households. We all know kids pick up on everything, so if there’s less anxiety to absorb, our kids will act-out less.

As an Episcopal minister and family coach, David Code hears the
kitchen-table confessions that families don’t tell their doctor or therapist.
From the joy of weddings and baptisms to the agony of divorce or kids acting out, David has collected the wisdom of these real-life confessions—-the things parents wish they had known before their families descended into crisis. Drawing from the latest research in neuroscience and his study of families around the world, David offers you practical tools to bring greater simplicity and joy to your family.

David has studied at Yale, Princeton and the Georgetown Family Center (formerly part of Georgetown Medical School). He has over five years of supervised experience as a pastoral counselor, a hospital chaplain, and a hospice volunteer to cancer and AIDS patients and their families.

Born on a farm in Canada, David has stayed with families in fifteen countries across four continents, and learned Japanese, Russian and French.
He lives in State College, PA with his wife and their two children.

CBS News:

RADIO:
NPR
BBC Vanessa Feltz Show
BBC 4 Woman’s Hour (Fast-forward to 33:40 in the broadcast)
Audio interview with the Christian Science Monitor (look for the tiny, blue “Play” button at the beginning of the article).

PRINT (USA):
Wall Street Journal
“Parents” Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle
Christian Science Monitor articles: #1, #2 and #3 (The first 2 opinion articles stayed at #1 on Yahoo! News for almost a week)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ladies Home Journal
Philadelphia Inquirer (with U. Penn Medical School prof David Sherry)
The Parent Paper of New Jersey
Episcopal Life Magazine
Good Housekeeping (coming soon)

PRINT (BRITAIN & INTERNATIONAL):
Times of London
Guardian
Daily Telegraph articles: #1 and #2
Daily Mail articles: #1 and Columnist Allison Pearson
The Sun (Scotland)
Sunday World (Ireland)
Vancouver Sun and Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
The Times of India
China Daily (Beijing) and Cuyou
Tehran Times (Iran)
Gulf News (Dubai)
The Trinidad Guardian

BLOGS:
Huffington Post
Texas Psychological Association (Jan 6, 2010)
Columbia University Medical Center EVRI News
Stanford University Wellsphere
Mumsnet
Parent Pages
Parentville
She Knows Parenting
AOL’s ParentDish

HIGHLIGHTS OF DAVID’S BACKGROUND:

–Story Consultant for “Saturday Night Live” (”Japanese Game Show” sketch with Mike Myers, Chris Farley, and Alec Baldwin);

–Consultant Experience with CNN, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, and McCann-Erickson;

–Member of The Whiffenpoofs of Yale;

–Traveled to over 50 countries;

–Married for fourteen years and the father of two children.

A video sample of David’s seminars–click on the “Play” button in the picture below: