August 4, 2013 Playful parenting approach helps raise smart and happy kids, two recent studies have revealed. In one study researchers found that, when compared to a supportive style, tiger parenting give rise to children who suffer academically and emotionally, while the second one suggested that children raised by authoritarian parents struggle with depression, anxiety…
Galit Breen | September 1, 2013 Cutting-edge happiness and success research shows that the tiger mom parenting style has it all wrong and the results are unhappy and (surprisingly?) unsuccessful children. Enter: dolphin dads. A switch in your thinking may be the key to raising successful children. In 2011, Amy Chua’s Tiger Mom threw many of us…
Joy Jernigan | MSN Living Editor Aug 7, 2013 Unlike the strict “tiger parenting” philosophy championed by author Amy Chua in her 2011 bestseller, dolphins may make a better parenting model, Shawn Achor, the author of the forthcoming book, “Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change” (Crown Business), tells the New…
Catherine Townsend | August 7, 2013 Harvard-educated researcher Shawn Achor is one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success Says that the ‘tiger’ approach of working hard to achieve happiness is ‘scientifically backward’, and parents should focus on helping kids be positive instead A leading happiness researcher has claimed that playful…
Joe DeProspero | August 7, 2013 In an August 1st Daily News article about parenting techniques, Tiger Mom was pitted against Dolphin Dad. In comparing the two drastically different methods, one simple question was asked. Since I’m a football guy and the NFL’s preseason is underway (Go Jets!), I’ll use a sports analogy to describe it: As…
Rachel Pomerance | U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT August 2, 2013 If there’s one topic that can fuel the range and fire of human emotion, it’s parenting. There’s zealotry in the quest to correct and preserve teachings of past generations, profess the rectitude of a chosen parenting style and defend against the readily exchanged judgment about how…
Rachel Pomerance Berl | August 1, 2013 If there’s one topic that can fuel the range and fire of human emotion, it’s parenting. There’s zealotry in the quest to correct and preserve teachings of past generations, profess the rectitude of a chosen parenting style and defend against the readily exchanged judgment about how to win or…
Sarah Smith | July 24, 2013 The problem with the whole Tiger Mom thing awhile back was that there didn’t seem to be a good alternative. Kittycat Mom who doesn’t care at all about her child’s success? Now I’ve heard about a better animal antidote: Dolphin Parents. They’re proof you don’t have to be a tiger to give your…
Jennifer D’Angelo Friedman | July 18, 2013 Remember back in 2011, when Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother both infuriated and inspired American moms with its tough-love techniques for raising a successful child? Consider Dolphin Parenting the softer, fuzzier approach. “A Tiger Parent believes if a child becomes successful, THEN the child will be happy. A…
Sherri Kuhn | November 02, 2013 Bullying is a hot topic with everyone from the playgroup moms to the middle school campus supervisors. The negative effects of a bully’s behavior affects not only the victim, but the bystanders and the bully as well. NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK USES SCIENCE What if there was a way to stop…
