Greater Good

Raising Happiness: My Love-Hate Relationship with Mother’s Day

How we’re turning it into a kindness scavenger hunt.

Raising Happiness: Three Quick Tips for Saving the Earth

Outsmart the brain boobie-traps that make you wasteful

Raising Happiness: How to Deal with Mean People

Hint: Don’t just turn the other cheek.

Articles: April Education Newsletter

From lessening the stress of testing to the neuroscience of learning, here's a round-up of our recent education content.

Articles: Too Many Bullies

Emily Bazelon's new book explores bullying among kids—and finds the solution in fostering empathy among both kids and adults.

Articles: Training Kids for Kindness

Brooke Dodson-Lavelle explains how a trailblazing compassion training program expands children's natural capacity for empathy and kindness—even toward so-called "bullies."

Raising Happiness: Podcast: Forgive and Forget?

When we forget what happened, do we set ourselves up?

Articles: Bully: The Movie Every Teacher and Student Needs to See

The new documentary Bully tells the stories of five bullied kids—and says what we can do to help them.

Raising Happiness: Is Your Kid Mean?

Five ways to raise kind and compassionate kids.

Articles: A Simple Bully Buster: Cooperative Learning

A recent study suggests how teachers can promote kindness in the classroom, not competition.

Articles: The Wisdom of Babies

As Roots of Empathy gears up for its U.S. expansion, founder Mary Gordon reveals how the program has nurtured compassion around the world, one child at a time.

Research Digest Items/Studies: Why Do Bullies Bully?

Research Digest Items/Studies: Do Bullies have Empathy?

Articles: Roots of Empathy on CNN

The Canadian emotional literacy program gets such much-deserved national coverage in the U.S.

Articles: When Values Trump Violence

A new study suggests an important way to reduce bullying.