Sandy Jones & Marcie Jones
Sandy Jones is an expert in communicating to parents and the professionals who serve them. She is the author of 12 books on parenting that have collectively sold over half a million copies worldwide.
Sandy and Marcie Jones, Sandy’s daughter, have co-authored a series of books over the past five years. Their shared titles include: Great Expectations: Your All-in-One Resource for Pregnancy & Childbirth (Sterling Publishing, 2004) and Great Expectations Pregnancy Journal & Planner (Sterling Publishing, Fall, 2005). Their newest editions include Great Expectations: Your Baby’s First Year (September, 2007); and Great Expectations: Best Baby Gear(Fall, 2008). Their upcoming titles include: Great Expectations: Baby Sleep Guide and Great Expectations: The Toddler Years to be published in 2009-2010.
Sandy’s additional titles include: Good Things for Babies (Houghton Mifflin, 1976, second edition, 1980), Learning for Little Kids (Houghton Mifflin, 1979),To Love a Baby (Houghton Mifflin, 1982), The Complete Baby Book (Simon & Schuster Fireside/Publications International, 1979), The Consumer Reports Guide to Baby Products (Consumer Reports Books, 1988, 2nd Edition, 1989, 3rd Edition, 1991, 4th Edition, 1993, 5th Edition, 1996, 6th Edition, 1999, 7th Edition, 2001), Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights (Warner Books & Harvard Common Press, 1983, revised edition, 1992), and Comforting Your Crying Baby (Innova Publications, 2005). She also has authored a strategic report entitled: Parent Support, A Step-by-Step Corporate Guide (The Bureau of National Affairs, 1989). She was a contributor to Pre- and Perinatal Psychology: An Introduction, edited by Thomas R. Verny, M.D. (Human Sciences Press), The Childhood Medical Guide (Time-Life Books), and The Experts’ Guide to the Baby Years: 100 Things Every Parent Should Know(Clarkson-Potter).
Both Sandy and Marcie have advanced media training and have made multiple appearances together on television and radio talk shows. As a parenting expert, Jones has been a featured guest on the “Today Show” (4 times), “Good Morning America,” “CNN,” “CBS This Morning,” and nearly 200 other network and local television and radio programs through in-city and satellite tours. Her most recent appearances include the ”Today Show,” two taped segments for “The American Baby Show” (aired repeatedly on Fox), multiple radio interviews for National Public Radio’s “Parenting Journal,” “The Mom’s Guide to Baby Gear” (aired repeatedly on the “Discovery Health Channel”), and an appearance on CNN’s “Money Matters.”
Sandy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Furman University where she received the Marshall Prevost Award for “Outstanding Performance in the Behavioral Sciences.” She earned her Master’s Degree in Psychology from Appalachian State University in 1972, and she has taken doctoral-level coursework on infant development from the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland.
Nearly 300 of Sandy’s articles on consumer issues and parenting have been published in national publications including Family Circle, Redbook, American Baby, and Working Mother. She has been a contributor to Parenting and Woman’s World and a monthly columnist for Parents. She has served as a media spokesperson for Fisher-Price Toys, Health-tex, Inc. (children’s clothing), Fruit of the Loom’s Layette Division, “Bringing Home Baby” launch of Aetna. She has done presentation for parents at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, the Baylor Medical Center, for parents as well as medical personnel at the Gwinnett Medical Center (GA), and for medical support personnel at the Northside Hospital in Atlanta, the largest birthing center in the nation with over 18,000 births per year.
Marcie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political, Legal and Economic Analysis from Mills College, Oakland, CA (1995) and a Master’s Degree in Publication Design from the University of Baltimore (2001). She has served as a Search Engine Optimization Expert for e.magination network, as an Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Baltimore, has won publication design awards from the Maryland-DC-Virginia Press Association, and has co-authored a series of topical articles for national parenting publications, includingFitPregnancy. She has also served as a designer and freelance reporter for theMaryland Daily Record, a business and legal newspaper, and as an editor/writer for Hunt-Scanlon Publication’s Executive Search Review and WorkPlace America.She also has served as an editor/writer for Insurance Advisor monthly magazine, and as an Assistant Media Relations Director for the Maryland Institute College of Art.
As a speaker, Sandy has made presentations for the national conferences of La Leche League International and the National Association for the Education of Young Children. In addition, she has lectured to parenting groups and professionals working with parents across the nation including her unique “Empowerment for Mothers,” an interactive seminar. In 1974 – 1978 she administered mother support groups for low-wealth, inner-city, teenaged moms with babies for the Woodbourne Center in Baltimore, Maryland. She was funded by the Abell Foundation and Family Focus in Baltimore to study parent-support programs for low-wealth parents nationwide. In support of the grant, she visited a wide variety of support programs in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Dallas and San Francisco to report back to the Foundation on how best to expend its funds to help this population.
Sandy’s honors include: “Outstanding Young Women in America, “1976; “The World’s Who’s Who of Women,” the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, Volume Six, 1980; winner of “Distinguished Contributor,” the National Media Awards, The American Psychological Association, 1983; “Who’s Who of American Women, “Marquis Publications, 12th Edition, 1979; “Contemporary Authors,” Gale Research, Vol. 85-88; “Who’s Who in the Media and Communications, ” Marquis Publications, 1st Edition, 1998-99; and “Who’s Who in America,” 1999-00.