In Your Kids, Their Lives: A Parent's Guide to Raising Happy, Competent, Caring Children, Malinda Jo Muzi advocates for the children of America. She proposes that most of the information parents are getting about parenting is inaccurate or silly, and often downright harmful. In relying on the work of the most distinguished researchers in child development over the past 40 years, the author directs parents toward techniques that have proven to be most advantageous to parents and children.

The best a parent can do is provide their children with the kind of experiences, particularly at home, that are likely to move them in a direction that leads them to happy, competent and caring lives, and turns them away from the forces in society that work against their best interests.