Alex SchmidtAlex Schmidt has an undergraduate degree in psychology and has studied developmental psychology, which he tried gamely to put into practice while raising five children. Mr. Schmidt has published more than a dozen law-related magazine articles. Weebit In the Garden is his first book.

Mr. Schmidt lives in Freehold, New Jersey with his wife, 6-year old son, a Yorkshire Terrier named Leo, their Beta fish Gus, and his bowl-mate, a Golden Inca snail named Yellow. Read More Read Less