How to lighten up your parenting because it’s fun, loving, and effective! - Join us for the fun with special guest Dr. Larry Cohen - Click here to listen now free of charge
Hear this API Live! teleseminar event with hosts Lu Hanessian, author of the new playful book for parents and children: Picnic on a Cloud, and API co-founder Lysa Parker talk with Dr. Larry Cohen about:
- What is Playful Parenting and what does it have to do with attachment security?
- Will my children know how to take life, or take me, seriously if we’re playful?
- What does playful parenting have to do with confidence building and helping children resolve problems?
- What is the impact of parent playfulness on my child’s development and emotion?
- Can being playful make me a better parent?
- Can it make parenting more satisfying, more fun for me?
- I’m not so playful naturally. What do I do?
- When roughhousing, how do we help it end on a happy note?
And Larry Cohen’s favorite playful parenting ideas you don’t want to miss
About Larry Cohen
Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., the author of PLAYFUL PARENTING, is a licensed psychologist specializing in children’s play and play therapy. In addition to his private therapy practice, he is also a speaker and consultant to public and independent schools, and a teacher of parenting classes and classes for daycare teachers. Dr. Cohen is also the co-author, with Michael Thompson and Catherine O’Neill Grace, of Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Friendship, Popularity and Social Cruelty in the Lives of Boys and Girls, and Mom, They’re Teasing Me: Helping Children Solve Social Problems. His regular column in Nick Jr. Magazine was the winner of the 2003 Golden Lamp award from Education Press, and he also answers parents’ questions online at NickJr.com.
His new book is The Art of Roughhousing.
Dr. Cohen is the author of numerous published articles in professional journals and popular magazines, and he has presented his work at professional conferences, workshops, classes, and public appearances.
Dr. Cohen attended Haverford College and received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Duke University. After an internship at Tulane University, he began a research and private practice career in Madison, Wisconsin. His treatment innovations have included the first groups in the country for husbands and boyfriends of sexual abuse survivors, as well as one of the first therapy groups for male survivors of sexual abuse. All of his work — with children, parents, couples, abuse survivors, and families — has pointed him towards writing about human connections.
Dr. Cohen lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
