Kathy Caprino | December 04, 2013 One of the things I love most about my work is that my fascinating, knowledgeable clients teach me things I’m excited to learn. Recently a client shared with me the riveting TED talkby the world’s leading positive psychology expert and bestselling author Shawn Achor onThe Happy Secret to Better Work.…
Laura Shin | Forbes Contributor November 30, 2013 Few deadlines are quite like the end of the year. Just as we are trying, in the home stretch, to do our best at work to nail that bonus, raise or promotion, we’ve got social events heating up, family events crowding in, and travel and all its various…
Hazel Perry | October 28, 2013 The newly defined dolphin style of parenting is not the first to capture attention in recent years. Yale law professor Amy Chua’s 2011 book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother outlined a parenting style that was high on discipline, and placed study before play dates and fun. Then there was eagle…
Hazel Parry | South China Morning Post October 28, 2013 Do you hover over your children and swoop when they need advice, or do you mow down every obstacle in their path? If the former, you’re a helicopter parent, if the latter, a lawnmower parent. Parenting methods have been given some strange labels in recent…
Barbara McMahon | September 21, 2013 Playful parents make for smarter, happier children, according to new research. Amy Chua’s provocative memoir described a strict method of raising children known as Tiger parenting. The Yale law professor recalled how she rejected her 4yearold daughter Lulu’s homemade birthday card for being carelessly drawn, threatened to burn her older daughter Sophia’s stuffed animals if she did not improve her piano playing, and never accepted grades…
Harvey Schachter | Special to The Globe and Mail Oct. 10 2013 Too much noise can knock you off balance. That’s the warning from Shawn Achor, San Antonio, Tex.-based author of the bestselling book The Happiness Advantage and the recently published Before Happiness. But Mr. Achor is not talking about the noise of a neighbour’s stereo blasting away…
Katie Macdonald | Readers’ Digest Online October 2013 Tell yourself you can change. “Happiness is not the belief you don’t need to change, it’s that you can change,” Achor says. Take a moment to notice the relationship between change and personal growth. Try this: “Write down the three greatest moments of change in your life that have brought you…
Sandra Bienkowski | Oct 11, 2013 If you want to raise happy and successful kids, model the traits of a dolphin, says Shawn Achor, author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage, and Harvard researcher. Be playful, friendly, intelligent and social. Dolphin parents raise positive kids, and that sets the stage for future success, Shawn says. Many parents think success…
Kathleen O’Brien -The Star-Ledger | October 22, 2013 If you’re looking for a parenting role model, you could do worse than to turn your gaze toward Sea World. In a era crammed to overflowing with advice, “dolphin parenting” is the latest attempt to look to the animal kingdom for easy-to-understand guidance. In her original CNN…
Phil Robinson | September 21, 2013 The summer holidays dragged like a ball and chain and I resorted to preemptive yelling, mostly “No!”, at any request of my sons Caspar, 6, Conrad, 8, and Oscar, 11. By early September, I was keeping a criminal record for each child in my head. I exploded at the smallest infraction. I had rules for just about everything. Parenting…
