About
About Stress Free Discipline
Raised a Unitarian, Judith explored Buddhism, hypnosis, automatic writing, Transcendental Meditation and Christian Science before committing herself to Christian beliefs. She has happily lived half of her sixty-four years in that faith. Her faith was enriched through the hardship of eight years of complete disability caused by CFIDS, EBV and fibromyalgia. After six years of down time, she wrote Stress Free Discipline, her “life’s work.”
About Judith
Judith graduated from U.C. Berkeley in the 60’s with a degree in English and Social Studies. Her student teaching in a Stanford based high school furthered her desire to uplift students into a life of skillful problem-solving. This focus on societal wellness resulted in a 19-year career as a teacher of ages six through sixty, primarily in the field of English.
During seven years of teaching high school delinquents, Judith was constantly researching and experiencing what works and what fails in parenting and teaching difficult youth. Sixty-four semester units beyond her Bachelor’s Degree were devoted to gaining practical skills related to her various teaching assignments.
Judith has earned secondary teaching credentials in English and Social Studies in three states, and a California Junior College Life Credential in Banking and Finance.
As English Department Chair, Judith wrote culturally relevant instructional materials for the Navajos she taught in Shiprock, New Mexico. She also wrote their four year high school scope and sequence of computer English curricula.
These experiences helped her to build phase-based skills into Stress Free Discipline.
While in Shiprock, Judith published the school newspaper, literary magazine and yearbook. This effort was the end result of a lifetime of interest in creative writing.
For the past three years Judith has managed a senior apartment complex in Pacific Beach, part of eleven years spent in property management. She has raised two gifted sons— one hyperactive—as Christians. Now she enjoys her grandchildren and her gardening and PhotoShop hobby.
Still working to manage her illness, she considers it a blessing in disguise. It turned her from a Martha into a Mary.
