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…
Rohan Pearce | August 1, 2013 Being successful won’t necessarily make you happy, but according to Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and CEO of GoodThink, happiness can help raise levels of success. It’s somewhat of an inversion of what people typically believe – and it has implications for businesses that want to boost what their…
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…
Eloise Marie Valadez | July 29, 2013 Author and positive psychology expert Shawn Achor travels the world to spread his messages on achieving happiness. Achor, cofounder of the Institute of Applied Positive Research and founder of Good Think Inc., was recently in Chicago to speak about his work on the link between happiness, success, and productivity.…
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…
Kare Anderson | July 21, 2013 The second part of this story is the real clincher for considering that happiness can be a choice. An elementary school teacher in rural Arkansas made a bracelet of charms of each student in her class so she could continually remind herself of how she cared about each one, and her…
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…
