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Video: Should We Push Kids Harder?

By Christine Carter | October 5, 2011

Will our kids be more successful if we push them harder to acheive more? This week, Lindsay and I discuss that Tiger-mother-like desire not only to propell our kids to success, but also to choose what they are successful in.

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Christine Carter

Christine Carter, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow at the Greater Good Science Center. She is the author of The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction (BenBella, 2020), The Sweet Spot: How to Accomplish More by Doing Less (Ballantine Books, 2015), and Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents (Random House, 2010). A former director of the GGSC, she served for many years as author of its parenting blog, Raising Happiness. Find out more about Christine here.

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