Lawrence Kutner

The Associated Press calls him "Dr. Dad." Publisher's Weekly says one of his most recent books "places him firmly in the pantheon occupied by Spock, Brazelton, and Leach." But Dr. Larry Kutner describes himself simply as "a guy who does a lot of different stuff." Kutner a nationally known clinical psychologist who trained at the Mayo Clinic and teaches at Harvard Medical school, where he is co-director of the Harvard Center for Mental Health and Media.

After spending eight years as the child behavior columnist for Parents magazine and the author of its "Ask The Expert" column, Kutner recently left that position to become a columnist and contributing editor for three magazines published by Time Warner: Parenting, Family Life, and BabyTalk. He also writes for two online services: Pampers.com and ParentTime.com. He was the author for eight years of the award-winning, weekly New York Times "Parent & Child" column, which was also syndicated to several hundred other newspapers throughout the U.S. That column won the 1990 American Psychological Association National Psychology Award as the best writing about psychology in the country.

Kutner is an Emmy Award-winning television reporter and documentary producer. For two years he hosted a call-in program on parenting on KGO Radio (ABC) in San Francisco. He has been a consultant on child development or a spokesperson for a wide range of foundations, universities and corporations, including Microsoft, Disney, Procter and Gamble, and General Mills. During 1998 he toured the U.S. on behalf of Philips Consumer Communications on a project to promote better communication between young adolescents and their parents.

And he's a father who has done his share of diaper changes, tantrum taming, and managing adolescent angst.

Kutner received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in Ohio and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota. He is the Parent & Child: Getting Through to Each Other; Pregnancy and Your Baby's First Year; Toddlers and Preschoolers; Your School-Age Child; and Making Sense of Your Teenager.