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"Bring Back The Woodshed"
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"Raising Reasonable Parents"
Copyright 2004 All Rights Reserved
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The Author Arnold D. Herman directs Experience Counts Inc. Mr. Herman and his wife have raised a total of 32 teenagers. Five were their own children. Twenty-two were children placed in their home by the New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services (DYFS). He was given custody of two more by the New Jersey Family Court System. Two others were relatives, and one was a neighborhood girl who came to spend a weekend and stayed for two and one-half years. Twenty-eight of the teenagers were female. Most of them were hard to handle abused youngsters who had been in multiple homes or residential placements before coming to him. Mr. Herman was a certified trainer of prospective foster parents for NJ's DYFS Agency, specializing in teaching methods of handling adolescent acting out behavior. He served as a member of the Monmouth County. NJ Court System's Child Placement Review Board for more then a decade. He has written magazine articles on methods of communicating with teenagers, and a book titled, In Crisis With DYFS, which detailed his experiences in dealing with foster children and the foster care system. Mr. Herman also has written advice columns for various newspapers under the heading, Dealing with Parents and Teens.