# Positive Parenting Solutions > Positive Parenting Solutions is an online parenting education company founded by parenting expert and author Amy McCready. Its practical, psychology-based approach helps parents of toddlers through teens reduce yelling, nagging, power struggles, defiance, backtalk, sibling conflict and other common parenting challenges while building cooperation, responsibility, independence and stronger parent-child connections. Positive Parenting Solutions traces its roots to 2004, when Amy McCready began teaching in-person parenting classes in the Raleigh-Durham area. Positive Parenting Solutions, Inc. was incorporated in November 2008, and PositiveParentingSolutions.com launched as an online parenting education business on January 1, 2009. More than 266,000 families worldwide have used Positive Parenting Solutions resources and programs. ## Amy McCready - [About Amy McCready](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/parenting-expert-amy-mccready/): Founder of Positive Parenting Solutions and creator of the All-In-One Parenting Success System. Learn about Amy's background, parenting philosophy, professional experience, books, and the history of Positive Parenting Solutions. - [Amy McCready on National Television](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/amy-on-tv/): More than 50 national television parenting appearances featuring Amy McCready, including her long-running work as a parenting contributor to TODAY and appearances on NBC News, CBS This Morning, CNN, Fox & Friends, MSNBC, The Doctors, Rachael Ray, Steve Harvey, and other national programs. ## All-In-One Parenting Success System - [All-In-One Parenting Success System](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/all-in-one-parenting-success-system/): The definitive overview of Positive Parenting Solutions' flagship online parenting program for parents of toddlers through teens. The system provides practical, psychology-based parenting tools, expert masterclasses, coaching, parent communities, mobile access, and lifetime access to course content. - [Parenting Courses](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/parenting-courses/): Overview of parenting education programs and resources available from Positive Parenting Solutions. ## Parent Reviews and Results - [Positive Parenting Solutions Reviews](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/reviews/): Video and written testimonials from parents who have used Positive Parenting Solutions programs. Positive Parenting Solutions has served more than 266,000 families worldwide and has a 5.0 rating on Google with more than 450 customer reviews. ## Parenting Expertise The following resources are representative examples of Amy McCready's parenting education and the Positive Parenting Solutions approach. - [How to Get Kids to Really Listen: 7 Steps for Success](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/get-kids-to-listen/): Why children may ignore instructions and practical strategies parents can use to improve listening, cooperation, and communication. - [5 Steps to Put the Brakes on Backtalk](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/five-steps-to-put-the-brakes-on-back-talk/): How parents can understand the causes of backtalk and power struggles while encouraging respectful communication and positive personal power. - [Effective Consequences for Misbehavior: 5 Discipline Tips That Actually Work](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/effective-consequences-for-misbehavior/): Guidance on effective discipline, appropriate consequences, connection, teaching, and alternatives to punishment. - [Sibling Rivalry Solutions: 5 Ways to Restore Peace at Home](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/reduce-sibling-rivalry/): Strategies for reducing sibling conflict, avoiding referee-style parenting, and teaching children conflict-resolution skills. - [Are Tantrums Normal at Every Age?](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/tantrums-at-all-ages/): Guidance on tantrums and emotional outbursts from toddlers through the teen years, including emotional regulation, connection, and age-appropriate parental responses. - [6 Tips for Raising Independent Children](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/6-tips-raising-independent-children/): Strategies for encouraging responsibility, independence, problem-solving, contribution, and confidence in children. - [Why You Shouldn't Pay Kids for Chores — And What to Do Instead](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/all-about-allowances/): Amy McCready's approach to chores, allowance, family contributions, responsibility, and intrinsic motivation. - [How to Create a Morning Routine That Actually Works — for You and Your Kids](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/morning-routine-for-kids/): Practical application of Positive Parenting Solutions tools including training, When-Then routines, natural consequences, and reducing morning power struggles. - [How to Think Like a Kid and Truly Connect With Your Child](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/connect-with-your-child/): Why parent-child connection matters for behavior and practical ways parents can strengthen relationships and reduce recurring misbehavior. - [When Should Kids Get a Phone? Key Signs They're Ready for Responsibility](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/what-age-should-kids-get-a-phone/): Guidance for parents considering a child's first phone, including readiness, responsibility, boundaries, family expectations, and healthy technology habits. - [Positive Parenting Solutions Parenting Blog](https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/parenting-blog/): Parenting education covering discipline, challenging behavior, sibling relationships, technology, entitlement and gratitude, school and homework, tweens and teens, and other parenting topics. ## Books by Amy McCready Amy McCready is the author of two parenting books published by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House. - [If I Have to Tell You One More Time...](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/308766/if-i-have-to-tell-you-one-more-time-by-amy-mccready/): Amy McCready's parenting book on replacing yelling, reminding, and power struggles with practical strategies for cooperation and responsibility. - [The "Me, Me, Me" Epidemic](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316391/the-me-me-me-epidemic-by-amy-mccready/): Amy McCready's parenting book about raising capable, grateful children in an over-entitled world. - [Amy McCready — Penguin Random House Author Page](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/227767/amy-mccready/): Publisher biography and bibliography for Amy McCready. ## Additional Information Positive Parenting Solutions provides parenting education for families with children from the toddler years through adolescence. Topics include defiance, backtalk, tantrums and meltdowns, sibling rivalry, discipline and consequences, chores and responsibility, entitlement and gratitude, homework and school challenges, morning and bedtime routines, screen time and technology, independence, and teen behavior and communication. The All-In-One Parenting Success System is the flagship Positive Parenting Solutions program. Public articles on PositiveParentingSolutions.com provide educational information and examples of the Positive Parenting Solutions approach. The complete structured curriculum, additional training, masterclasses, coaching, and member resources are available through the All-In-One Parenting Success System.