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10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents
Ballantine
March 2011
On Sale: March 1, 2011
247 pages ISBN: 0345515625 EAN: 9780345515629 Kindle: B00338QEN8 Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
What do we wish most for our children? Next to being
healthy, we want them to be happy, of course! Fortunately, a
wide array of scientific studies show that happiness is a
learned behavior, a muscle we can help our children build
and maintain.
Drawing on what psychology, sociology,
and neuroscience have proven about confidence, gratefulness,
and optimism, and using her own chaotic and often hilarious
real-world adventures as a mom to demonstrate do’s and
don’ts in action, Christine Carter, Ph.D, executive director
of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, boils the
process down to 10 simple happiness-inducing
steps.
With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Carter
covers the day-to-day pressure points of parenting—how best
to discipline, get kids to school and activities on time,
and get dinner on the table—as well as the more elusive
issues of helping children build healthy friendships and
develop emotional intelligence. In these 10 key steps, she
helps you interact confidently and consistently with your
kids to foster the skills, habits, and mindsets that will
set the stage for positive emotions now and into their
adolescence and beyond. Inside you will
discover • the best way avoid raising a
brat—changing bad habits into good ones • tips on how to
change your kids’ attitude into gratitude • the trap of
trying to be perfect—and how to stay clear of its
pitfalls • the right way to praise kids—and why too
much of the wrong kind can be just as bad as not enough •
the spirit of kindness—how to raise kind, compassionate, and
loving children • strategies for inspiring kids to do
boring (but necessary) tasks—and become more self-motivated
in the process Complete with a series of “try
this” tips, secrets, and strategies, Raising
Happiness is a one-of-a-kind resource that will help you
instill joy in your kids—and, in the process, become more
joyful yourself.
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