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About Just For Parents

Linda Santos Smith, Ph.D.
Dr. Smith is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University. She is Assistant Director of the Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center at Tufts-New England Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Smith also has a private practice in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Dr. Smith specializes in working with children, parents, and families, and has over 10 years of experience in child and family treatment and assessment. She has worked with children and families in many award winning hospitals and academic centers including Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and Harvard University/Cambridge Hospital. Dr. Smith is married and is raising three children of her own.

Suzanne E. Tobin, Ph.D.
Dr. Tobin is a school psychologist with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from The City University of New York Graduate School and University Center. She is a visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan University and a consulting school psychologist for Capitol Region Education Council. Dr. Tobin has worked with children from the preschool through high school level, as well as the parents and educators who support those children. Her professional experience spans several award winning Connecticut school districts, as well as an educational therapeutic day setting for students with emotional and behavioral issues. In addition, Dr. Tobin has served as a faculty member for several New York and Connecticut universities, teaching courses in psychology, child development, and education. She is married and raising two young children of her own.

Our Story
Linda and Sue joined together as psychologists and friends in 2005 to start Just For Parents, LLC. This project started after Linda and Sue had been talking regularly about their experiences as psychologists working with children. They found that many of the parents with whom they worked were frustrated and confused when they looked for parenting information. Parents were often desperate to identify a good parenting or child resource for a variety of common childhood issues. After seeing these parents struggle to find high quality, useful parenting information, Linda and Sue decided to establish this company to help parents more easily access the type of parenting information that was usually only available to psychologists and other child specialists. Linda and Sue believe that it is time for parents to have the same information that they have in their work as child psychologists. By having this information, Linda and Sue believe that parents will be able to be the best parents that they can be to their children. Just For Parents is dedicated to serving parents, and the children they love and care for.

Mission
The mission of our company is to help parents of children of all ages. However, since we are still a small company with limited resources, we have focused our work on initially serving parents of children from birth to age 5. This is often the most confusing and difficult time period for parents and their children, which is not surprising given the enormous amount of change and development that children go through within a short time period. Even though our initial focus will be on this age range, we anticipate reaching out to parents of older children as well, including latency aged children (6-11) and adolescent children (12-18). Please be patient with us as we try to build our company and resources so that we can reach our goal of becoming a primary parenting resource to all parents of children from 0-18. Thank you!