Theresa Foy DiGeronimo is the coauthor of the best-selling books from Jossey-Bass How to Talk to Your Kids About Really Important Things (1994), How to Talk to Your Teens About Really Important Things (1999), and the author of How To Talk to Your Senior Parents About Really Important Things (2001). She is adjunct professor of English at the William Paterson, University of New Jersey. She lives in Hawthorne, New Jersey with her husband and three children.