Your Happiness Calendar for October 2023
This month, show love and respect to others.
How Movies Can Help Children Find Meaning in Life
A new study finds that movies can offer children insights about life, and inspire them with moral beauty and heroism.
One Way to Improve Teen Mental Health: Activism
A new study finds that teens involved in youth programs develop more critical reflection and take more action to fight injustice and inequality.
Debunking the Myths of the Only Child
Whether children have siblings is much less important to how they develop than their families' financial and emotional resources.
Feeling Awe Might Help Kids Be More Generous
A new study finds that awe makes children more giving toward refugees—and more calm.
Your Happiness and Parenting Calendar for September 2023
This month, find moments of compassion, gratitude, and resilience with your family.
Why Achievement Culture Has Become So Toxic
The incessant pressure to perform takes a toll on children’s mental health—but there are other ways to help them find their sense of worth.
How We Talk With Kids About Prejudice Matters
Conversations about race and racism can help children engage with these topics and combat the negative messages they learn from society.
What Can We Do Now?
While votes for the 2020 election are counted, our contributors weigh in on what we as individuals can do now to preserve our well-being and…
How to Find Your Purpose in Life
Are you struggling to discover your purpose? That may be because you feel isolated from other people. Here's how you can overcome that.
Why Midlife Is So Hard—Especially Now
The modern midlife crisis comes from the stresses of caregiving for both children and parents, while facing financial struggles.
How Your Siblings Can Make You Happier
Sibling relationships affect us more than we probably realize—and we can work on improving them at any age.
How Cosleeping Can Help You and Your Baby
The decision whether to cosleep with your baby is extremely controversial—and there are two sides to the story.
20 Questions to Ask Your Mother
Print this list for Mother’s Day—or for your next family dinner or gathering.
Greater Good Resources for Women’s Well-Being
For International Women's Day, we gathered articles that aim to help women take care of themselves and each other, make a living, raise…
How Teens Today Are Different from Past Generations
A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds many ways this generation—the “iGens"—is different from Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials.