Raising Happiness: Podcast: Making Sleep a Priority
By Christine Carter | January 17, 2013Sleep affects everything, from our moods to our smarts to our body weight
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Videos and Podcasts: Is Yelling the New Spanking?
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | December 20, 2012Most parents yell at their kids at one time or another, but as stress and exhaustion increase over the holidays, some parents yell more. Rona gives us her tips and tricks for yelling less.
Videos and Podcasts: Managing Stress
By Christine Carter | December 17, 2012Our crazy busy lives—especially at this time of year!—can be stressful. Here are three tips for managing your stress year-round.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Managing Routines, Sleep, and Sugar Intake so Kids Can Thrive
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | December 13, 2012Providing more structure over the holidays
Videos and Podcasts: Managing routines, sleep, and sugar intake so kids can thrive
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | December 13, 2012The holidays are so fun, but many kids get really out of whack. How to manage moodiness and exhaustion at this time of year.
Articles: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
By Jill Suttie | October 3, 2012In his new book Dreamland, David K. Randall reveals the scientific and personal importance of sleep—and provides some tips to get more of it.
Raising Happiness: How Not to Have a Breakdown
By Christine Carter | January 9, 2012Four tips to get more done in less time.
Raising Happiness: Tuesday Tip: Get Enough Sleep
By Christine Carter | August 23, 2011One thing you can do today to be happier.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Getting Back into School Routines
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | August 15, 2011It's still summer...is it time to think about school routines?
Videos and Podcasts: Getting Back into School Routines
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | August 15, 2011Rona and Christine talk about ways to start easing kids back into their school routines to make for a happier week of school. Part 1 of a 3 part series.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Strategies for Feeling Good After You’ve Felt Bad
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | July 11, 2011Christine's list of go-to feel-better tactics.
Videos and Podcasts: Strategies for Feeling Good After You’ve Felt Bad
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | July 11, 2011Rona and I continue the conversation from last week about difficult emotions, but this week is focused on recovery. Part 2 of a 2 part series.
Videos and Podcasts: What I Wish I’d Known About How to be Happy
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | June 20, 2011Christine and Rona talk about Christine’s commencement speech at UC Berkeley, which was about the three things she wished she’d known about how to be happy when she was graduating from college.
Videos and Podcasts: Talking About Kids’ Stress
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | June 13, 2011Many kids are anxious, depressed, and stressed. They are self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, and they are cutting themselves. Let’s TALK about this rather than ignore the trends.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Talking to Kids about Stress
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | June 13, 2011Let's not ignore that many children are anxious, depressed, and stressed out.
Raising Happiness: Manufacturing Happiness
By Christine Carter | April 13, 2011Ways to feel happy after we feel sad.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Making Sleep a Priority
By Christine Carter | January 10, 2011Sleep affects everything, from our moods to our smarts to our body weight
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Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
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How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
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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
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The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
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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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