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Holiday Gratitude Traditions

November 12, 2012 | The Main Dish, Posts with Videos | 0 comments

Tis the season to foster gratitude in kids

 
  

With Thanksgiving approaching, I offer three of my favorite ways to make the holidays a time for gratitude.

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Is Happiness Learnable?

October 22, 2012 | The Main Dish, Posts with Videos | 0 comments

Happiness isn’t only determined by genetics. It’s a skill we can develop with practice.

 
  

Have you been wondering if you can encourage your Eeyore to be a bit sunnier? Or if your cynical spouse could look at the bright side a little more often? This quick video answers those questions.

Convinced, but wondering what skills foster happiness in kids? Start by teaching kindness (see also last week’s quick video), forgiveness, or stress management.

I’d love to know what you think! Post a comment here.

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3 Ways to Raise Kind Kids

October 9, 2012 | The Main Dish, Posts with Videos | 0 comments

First video in a new series!

 
  

Welcome to our new Raising Happiness video series produced by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley!

These new videos, which will be released every other week, are super-short and loaded with tips for raising happy kids and for finding more joy in parenting.

This week I give three quick tips for raising kids who are kind. Enjoy, and please leave a comment to let me know what you think!

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I’m Christine Carter, Ph.D, a sociologist and happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. This blog is mostly science-based parenting advice: since I’m reading all the research related to raising happy children anyway, I thought we might as well make it useable to parents. My intention is to bring a scientific framing (what does the research actually say?) to our opinion-based parenting debates and advice. Sorting fact from fiction can be confusing when it comes to parenting.

This blog is also about me and my children. It represents the intersection of my brain and my heart: my intellectual training in the social sciences and my very real, sometimes raw, experiences as a mother.

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