MSN LIVING: Playful ‘Dolphin Dads’ May Raise Happier Kids

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…

DAILY MAIL UK: Eat your heart out, Tiger Mom! Playful Dolphin Dads make children smarter AND happier, says top parenting expert

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…

BUSINESS INSIDER: HAPPINESS EXPERT: New ‘Dolphin Dad’ Parenting Strategy Is Better Than The ‘Tiger Mom’

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…

US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT: Dolphin Parenting: Raising Kids to Be Smart and Happy – Move over tiger mom. Meet dolphin dad.

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…