Dr Ana Aznar

Dr Ana Aznar is the founder and CEO of REC Parenting. She is a child psychologist, lecturer, researcher, author, and speaker. She holds a BSc in Psychology (The Open University, UK), an MSc in Applied Child Psychology, and a PhD in Developmental Psychology (Kingston University, UK). Ana specialises in parenting, family relations and children’s socioemotional development. She has four teenage boys.

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