Barry Ebert was introduced to Love and Logic parenting when his two sons were still toddlers. A friend handed him a cassette of Jim Fay's classic audiotape, "Helicopters, Drill Sergeants and Consultants," and he was hooked. He took the Becoming a Love and Logic Parent workshop twice and decided that it was too much fun to stop. They say, "teach what you want to learn," and he wanted to be a good dad.

He became a Certified Instructor of the workshop back in 1996, when Jim Fay was still giving written tests to working facilitators and collecting feedback forms from participants to determine if a facilitator was doing a good job. The company has gotten too big for that now, so Barry gets to be one of the few, the proud, the certified.

He has a bachelor's degree from Clarkson University, is a registered land surveyor, a songwriter, has completed the school of ministry and is the Youth Director at Mile Hi Church. He's married, and the boys are fully grown now. One of the first things he can remember Jim Fay saying is still a favorite; "There are only two kinds of kids; teenagers and those who are going to become teenagers." That turned out to be true.