Raising Happiness: 5 Tips for Boosting Your Willpower
By Christine Carter | April 23, 2012Good habits are foundational for happiness--but to create them, you need willpower.
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Raising Happiness: Habits Are Everything
By Christine Carter | April 16, 2012You might know how to be happy, but can you do it?
Raising Happiness: How Not to Have a Breakdown
By Christine Carter | January 9, 2012Four tips to get more done in less time.
Articles: How to Get Doctors to Give a Hand
By Melissa Janson | October 26, 2011Study suggests appealing to altruism increases hand washing in hospitals.
Videos and Podcasts: Step Two: Getting into a New Routine
By Christine Carter | September 28, 2011What’s the best way to start a new habit?
Raising Happiness: Video: Step Two: Getting into a New Routine
By Christine Carter | September 28, 2011What's the best way to start a new habit?
Videos and Podcasts: Are Your Family’s Routines Working?
By Christine Carter | September 21, 2011Lindsay’s bedtime routines get a make-over. Part of a video series on parenting produced by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.
Raising Happiness: Video: Are Your Family’s Routines Working?
By Christine Carter | September 21, 2011Lindsay's bedtime routines get a make-over
Raising Happiness: Tuesday Tip: Make Yourself Guffaw
By Christine Carter | July 5, 2011One thing you can do today to be happier.
Raising Happiness: Tuesday Tip: Take a Break
By Christine Carter | June 28, 2011One thing you can do today to be happier.
Raising Happiness: Motivated to do the Dishes
By Christine Carter | January 11, 2011Tips for turning housework into houseplay
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Making Changes in the New Year
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | January 4, 2011Listen to this before you make your New Year's Resolutions
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Keeping Those New Year’s Resolutions
By Christine Carter | January 3, 2011You've made 'em -- now make a plan to KEEP your resolutions
Raising Happiness: Changing Scenery: A Path to Peace (or, Changing your Family, Part 3)
By Christine Carter | October 24, 2010Sometimes change is much simpler than you thought.
Raising Happiness: Change is in the Heart (Or, How to Change Your Family, Part 2)
By Christine Carter | October 14, 2010Feel the change
Raising Happiness: How to Change Your Family, Part I
By Christine Carter | October 6, 2010I love my children just as they are. But I also want them to change.
Raising Happiness: Study Skills 2010: Not What You Think They Are
By Christine Carter | September 12, 2010The study skills your kid needs are easier than you think. Thank goodness.
Raising Happiness: No Labor Day
By Christine Carter | August 30, 2010Addressing my failure to get more rest.
Raising Happiness: Book Club: Raising Happiness, Ch. 6
By Christine Carter | August 5, 2010Practice, Practice, Practice
Videos and Podcasts: Happiness Takes Work
By Sonja Lyubomirsky | July 6, 2010Lasting boosts in happiness require long-term commitment, argues Sonja Lyubomirsky, but the right habits can help us get there.
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