Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Allison Carmen
I can remember like yesterday sitting at the dinner table as a child with my parents and siblings and feeling like the world was going to end. My parents would openly discuss current events. I thought to myself what will be in this world? How will I be safe? What can the future look like when these terrible things are happening all the time?
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- Written by: Stephanie Desmon, Johns Hopkins University
Getting half of American 8- to 11-year-olds into 25 minutes of physical activity three times a week would save $21.9 billion in medical costs and lost wages over their lifetimes, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Richard Lewis, University of Iowa
Children under a certain age don’t have the perceptual judgment and motor skills to cross a busy road consistently without putting themselves in danger, report researchers.
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- Written by: Andy Henion, Michigan State University
“Why do I have to learn this?” is a common question among young adults. New research suggests an answer from their peers has more weight than one from their teachers.
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- Written by: Thom Hartmann
Whenever we react to a person’s behavior--particularly a child’s--we can do it in either of two primary ways. One addresses the individual’s personhood and ties it to his behavior, and the other addresses his personhood and disconnects it from his behavior. This is a critical distinction.
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- Written by: Sammy Yaah Baya, Technical University of Kenya
In our study done in Kenya, we set out to look at whether adolescents get information about sex from television programmes.
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- Written by: Liz Greene and Juliet Sharman-Burke
This Greek tale is concerned with one of the great mysteries of the family: Where do our gifts and talents come from? It suggests that the misuse of inherited gifts can end in disaster, and that it is up to us to use our talents to serve rather than control life.
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- Written by: Rachel Harrison, New York University
Watching television for more than a couple of hours a day is linked to lower school readiness skills in kindergartners, particularly among children from low-income families.
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- Written by: Nathan Hurst, University of Missouri
Teacher ratings of parental involvement early in a child’s academic career can accurately predict the child’s academic and social success, new research shows.
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- Written by: Susan Stiffelman, MFT
In my book Parenting Without Power Struggles, I described three ways that parents can engage with their children: being confidently and calmly in charge, negotiating for power, or fighting their child for control.
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- Written by: Andy Henion, Michigan State University
Personality traits are “contagious” among preschoolers who spend time together, new research shows.
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- Written by: Cynthia Lee, McGill University
Delaying school start times could help teenagers sleep better, say experts, and could give them a better chance at success later.
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- Written by: Deborah Bach, University of Washington
Preschool-aged children can learn bias through nonverbal signals displayed by adults, such as a condescending tone of voice or a disapproving look, new research suggests.
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- Written by: Dr. Brenda Davies
Though we all want our children to do well, to have what they want, to achieve, we need to be aware that what they want may be different to what we want for them. Many people feel unhappy and unfulfilled partly because they've done what was expected of them to please their parents...
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- Written by: Jim Dryden, Washington University in St. Louis
Brain waves show that clinically depressed children don’t respond to rewards the same way as other children do.
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- Written by: Eric Maisel
Family communication is possible, but love must be the lubricant. Talking about things like love, kindness, and generosity, and not "problems", might be the route to family change.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
It may be possible to prevent babies from getting eczema—a costly, inflammatory skin disorder—just by applying something as inexpensive as petroleum jelly every day for the first six months of life.
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- Written by: Kevin Fryling, Indiana University
A baby’s most likely first words are based upon their visual experience, report researchers.
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- Written by: Dave Shaw, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Self-regulation skills help children manage their thoughts and feelings, control impulses, and solve problems.
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- Written by: Holly Korschun, Emory University
New eye-tracking measures show that young children with autism do not avoid eye contact on purpose. Instead, they miss the significance of social information that is in others’ eyes.
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- Written by: Jerry Lynch
I love how Eastern thought and Native American tradition emphasize the essential goodness in all children. The Tao calls this essential goodness the way of the expansive spirit. Our work is to guide our kids to discover this goodness within themselves...
