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Study Skills 2010: Not What You Think They Are

by Christine Carter September 18, 2010
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This article is reprinted from Christine Carter’s blog about raising happy kids, which can be found on the Greater Good Magazine website. The study skills your kid needs are easier than you think. Thank goodness. Every September, millions of parents try a kinds of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their [...]

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Celebrate summer

by Christine Carter August 11, 2010
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This article is reprinted from Christine Carter’s blog about raising happy kids, which can be found on the Greater Good Magazine website For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, [...]

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Siblings – friends forever?

by Christine Carter June 5, 2010
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This article is reprinted from Christine Carter’s blog about raising happy kids, which can be found on the Greater Good Magazine website. YOU ARE THE MEANEST SISTER IN THE WORLD!!!” My children are upstairs in the room directly above me, putting together a puzzle and fighting. I just heard a loud whap. Now there is [...]

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Can you teach your children to be lucky part III

by Christine Carter April 14, 2010
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This article is reprinted from Christine Carter’s blog about raising happy kids, which can be found on the Greater Good Magazine website. I annoy people with my desire, and ability, to find a silver lining in life’s mishaps and misfortunes. “Not everything has an upside!” a friend nearly-shouted at me after I pointed out that [...]

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Can you teach your children to be lucky? Part II

by Christine Carter April 10, 2010
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This article is reprinted from Christine Carter’s blog about raising happy kids, which can be found on the Greater Good Magazine website. People may be born into lucky situations, but they aren’t born lucky. Turns out the old aphorism is true: Research shows that people make their own luck. And they do it in a [...]

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Tantrum at the market

by Christine Carter March 18, 2010
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Click here to learn more about The Science for Raising Happy Kids and the Half Full Blog “Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.” –Author Unknown My point in writing the Bad [...]

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