Aisha Sultan | News & Observer, December 2014 There are times when a foggy malaise can settle into a spot. Even when cracks of sunlight break through this vapor, a heaviness lingers. Despite being a reporter – a job where we’re conditioned to notice and document what’s wrong, unfair, tragic and broken – I usually…
RIPPLE’S EFFECT by Shawn Achor and Amy Blankson: A Top Ten Favorite With Kindle Kids Ripple’s Effect jumped to the number 3 spot in the Amazon Children’s section on Saturday, May 17th. It’s written by popular happiness researcher, author and speaker Shawn Achor and his sister, Amy Blankson. Shawn has been featured recently on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday sharing…
Shannon Poulsen | May 03, 2014 SALEM — As students at Salem Hills High School made their way down the hall past the school’s office, before changing to their next class, they were greeted by Principal Bart Perry, who gave them all high-fives as part of showing an act of kindness. It’s part of the new…
Taylor Hengen Newman | January 7, 2014 Surprising tips on setting kiddos up for a lifetime of happiness … and success (In that order). arents go to great lengths—from Baby Einstein DVDs to cutthroat pre-school applications—in order to give their kids a leg up in our competitive world. Ensuring our children grow into “successful” adults often feels…
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…
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…
