Dr. Vicki Caruana is the author of 20 books and the blog
Apples & Chalkdust—named after her bestselling book that has
touched the lives of a million educators around the world. Caruana
is one of four parenting experts on Starting Points,
Focus on the Family’s parenting DVD series. Formerly a public
school teacher and a homeschooling mom, Vicki is now an assistant
professor of education at Mount Saint Mary College in New York. She
lives with her station wagon loving husband, Chip, in Newburgh, New
York and has two grown sons in Colorado Springs.