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Five Ways to Raise Kind Children

Is your teenager grouchy? Does your little one have a cold? Research shows that kindness is a sure route to greater happiness and, in some cases, improved health. (See last week’s posting, What You Get When You Give for more about this.) Here are five...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 4:51 PM by Half Full: Science for Raising Happy Kids

Filed under: Main essay, Growth & fixed mindsets, Happiness, Parenting, children, Emotion coaching, positive emotions, Teaching Emotional Literacy, Well-being, kindness, Compassion
What We Get When We Give

If you do a nice thing for someone else knowing you’ll reap some benefit yourself, is it still a good deed? What if your primary reason for doing it is because of the benefits it’ll bring you? Researchers spend a lot of time debating whether any altruistic...

Published Thu, Feb 18 2010 11:46 AM by Half Full: Science for Raising Happy Kids

Filed under: Main essay, Happiness, children, positive emotions, Optimism, Giving & Altruism, volunteer, kindness
How to Raise a Hero

When I was little, I pretended to be Wonder Woman, my brother was Spiderman, and together we would save the world. It’s exhilarating to be seven-years-old and convinced of your awesome power to help people. I want my kids to feel the same rush that comes...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2010 4:35 PM by Half Full: Science for Raising Happy Kids

Filed under: Main essay, Happiness, Parenting, children, Fighting, hero
Special Invitation

I would like to extend a special invitation to Half Full/Raising Happiness readers to be in ABC’s View from the Bay studio audience on Tuesday Feb. 9th, 2010 when Christine Carter will be discussing how to nurture your children’s social connections...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2010 10:13 AM by Half Full: Science for Raising Happy Kids

Filed under: Invitation
How to Raise Happy Kids

Recently I was an observer at a sold-out parent education seminar about the epidemic levels of depression, suicide, and anxiety disorders affecting children. The lecturer asked the audience rhetorically, “What is it that we most want our children to be...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 3:08 PM by Half Full: Science for Raising Happy Kids

Filed under: Main essay, On Life & Being a Parent, Happiness, Parenting, children, raising happiness, aristotle

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