Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Playful Parenting
Book Review: Play and Have Fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
The author shares how he has learned to play with children through raising a daughter and his work as a psychiatrist. It is easy to read with no psycho-babble. He demonstrates how how parenting can be creative and fun for all concerned! He gives adults permission to be silly and make mistakes!Book Review: Poorly organized, though helpful anecdotal information
Summary: 3 Stars
I felt that better organization would have improved the reading experience. Much skimming was needed to locate information most relevant to my child and I.
Although I agree with much of what the author presents, and have put some ideas into practice, what I read was awfully anecdotal and specific to a select group of children.
Book Review: Really only for little kids
Summary: 2 Stars
The book is severely lacking in ideas for any child over the age of 10.
Most of the "playful parenting" ideas are targeted towards toddler/preschool through early elementary years, with very little beyond that age group.
More than half the book is about him and his daughter, or him and his child patients. Although I'm not sure how old his daughter is now, it seems like she was pretty young when he wrote the book; so we don't know how what kind of person she grows up to be. He doesn't really offer any long-term benefit of playful parenting, such as, will the child grow to be a respectful, functioning human being.
The children he "plays" with seem quite verbally abusive to him. He says that it is alright, go along with it because a 4 year old calling you poopyhead or idiot means that is how they feel. Instead of correcting them in a friendly way, turn it into a game where they continue to call you the bad name. What kind of advise is that? At what point in his playful parenting approach does the children learn positive social interaction and appropriate behavior?
It is a good book if you have little kids and you don't know how to play with them, or have kind of a "stuffy" or overly strict personality, but beyond that, it might be better to look somewhere else for parenting advice.
Book Review: Reintroduce the Belly Laugh
Summary: 5 Stars
What a profoundly wonderful book. This book reminded me that when I am stressed, rushed, and generally a very serious parent... it has adverse effect on myself, my marriage, and my child. Reintroducing the belly laugh has made bedtime, dinner time, date night, and lifetime in general so much better for all of us. I never thought I would have this much fun doing such serious work (raising a person)...Book Review: So much more than playfulness!
Summary: 5 Stars
Its easy to WANT to be more fun when it comes to parenting, but the hard part for me was how to go about it. I bought this book hoping it would give me some good ideas. It exceeded my expectations! This book isn't just about being a fun, playful parent, it's so much more. Its about learning how to connect with your child, how to read your childs feelings and insecurities, and how to get them to learn to express their feelings in a safe, communicative way. All of the ideas and information was new to me and very fascinating. The book is written and organized well. The author provides plenty of anecdotes and examples of ways to connect with your child. I didn't feel like I was reading a book of ideas with no way to illustrate them as I have with other parenting books. I learned actual ways to connect. Highly recommended, I will be definately be reading this one again when my babies are a few years older!