Kathleen Burns is a veteran educator with twenty years’ experience teaching over 1000 nine-and ten-year olds. She founded “Head Start for Parents,” a non-profit organization in 1992. She earned her teaching degree in Behavioral Sciences and Psychology from Southern Colorado State College. Her experience, combined with the studies made by the numerous child development experts mentioned in Chapter One, led her to the conclusion that the success or failure most students achieve in school and adult life is determined by their home environment and the relationship they had with their parents.  This is knowledge is the basis on which she wrote her book