Raising Happiness: Failure Makes You a Winner
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Tag: Parenting
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Raising Happiness: My Love-Hate Relationship with Mother’s Day
By Christine Carter | May 7, 2013How we’re turning it into a kindness scavenger hunt.
Articles: An Unexpected Antidote to Cheating
By Vicki Zakrzewski | April 30, 2013Cheating is a complex problem. Could mindfulness be the answer?
Raising Happiness: April Raising Happiness Newsletter: Happy, Successful, & Kind
By Christine Carter | April 29, 2013Parents frequently tell me that they just want their kids to be happy. More often, they act as though they just want their kids to be successful.
Raising Happiness: Three Quick Tips for Saving the Earth
By Christine Carter | April 22, 2013Outsmart the brain boobie-traps that make you wasteful
Raising Happiness: How to Deal with Mean People
By Christine Carter | April 15, 2013Hint: Don’t just turn the other cheek.
Videos and Podcasts: Meditating with Kids
By Christine Carter | April 8, 2013Want to teach kids a simple meditation? Here’s how I do “loving kindness” meditation.
Articles: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part Two
By Jeremy Adam Smith | March 28, 2013Jeremy Adam Smith offers five more tips to help men find a happy fit between paid work and family responsibilities.
Raising Happiness: I Don’t Care How Big the Market Is: Those Are My Daughters
By Christine Carter | March 28, 2013Our 12 year olds think thong underwear makes them cool
Articles: How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
By Jeremy Adam Smith | March 27, 2013A new report finds that fitting work with family isn't just a women's issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing landscape at home and on the job.
Raising Happiness: Influencing Teens and Tweeners, Part 2
By Christine Carter | March 25, 2013Five more ways to get through to adolescents.
Raising Happiness: How to Influence Your Teen, Part 1
By Christine Carter | March 11, 2013Ten ways to decrease their resistance to your wise advice.
Raising Happiness: Happiness Tip: Nag less
By Christine Carter | March 4, 2013Increase the odds that your kids will do things the first time you ask
Raising Happiness: February Raising Happiness Newsletter: Relationship Resources
By Christine Carter | February 27, 2013Are you so over Valentine's Day?
Raising Happiness: Three Surprising Truths about Teens
By Christine Carter | February 18, 2013A scientific expert on adolescence answers our burning questions.
Videos and Podcasts: How Hectic Are Your Mornings?
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | January 31, 2013Tips for a peaceful and easy morning routine
Articles: What Gen Y Needs from Parents (and Why You Should Give It to Them)
By Diana Divecha | January 22, 2013New research says parental help for young adults is normal—and it may now be necessary.
Raising Happiness: Don’t Quit Your Resolutions Now!
By Christine Carter | January 21, 2013Double down for one more week and reap the benefits.
Videos and Podcasts: Gratitude 365
By Christine Carter | January 14, 2013Even though Thanksgiving is quickly becoming a distant memory, giving thanks can still be a significant part of our daily family lives. Here are my three favorite family gratitude practices.
Raising Happiness: The 10 Most Popular Raising Happiness Posts in 2012
By Christine Carter | January 7, 2013I'm always a little surprised by the posts that rise to the top!
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Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
April 15, 2013Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
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How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
March 27, 2013A new report finds that fitting work with family isn't just a women's issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing landscape at home and on the job.
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When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
April 2, 2013A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.
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World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements
May 21, 2013A Q&A with visionary educator John Hunter, creator of the World Peace Game.
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Can You Run Out of Empathy?
May 20, 2013An essay in this week’s New Yorker argues that we don't have enough empathy to go around. But new research says we can keep renewing and expanding our feeling for others.
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‘Free the Mind’ film
May 17, 2013
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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University of California, Berkeley
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
The GGSC’s six-day Summer Institute will equip educators with social-emotional learning tools that will benefit both students and teachers. Registration is now closed.
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- "Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
- "From Jerusalem to Jericho"
This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
- Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
- Northeast Foundation for Children
Northeast Foundation for Children is a non-profit educational organization that offers educators the Responsive Classroom...
- Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Based at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
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Why We Cooperate
Nature and nurture interact to inform, and reform, cooperative behavior. Infants and apes are both able to share, but only the two-year-old will pick up that thing you dropped in front of her.
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