Arts and Sciences’ Lisa Koops highlights parenting benefits of music

Make parenting easier: Get your music on

The Plain Dealer (subscription required): Lisa Koops, professor of music education at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed her research—and her upcoming book—highlighting how music can help make the job of parenting easier. “I’ve heard people say we’re not a musical family,” Koops said, but she takes exception. All families are musical, she added, noting there are many ways that can play out.