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LONDON TIMES: Why You Should Be a Dolphin Parent

Parenting

Barbara McMahon | September 21, 2013 Playful parents make for smarter, happier children, according to new research.   Amy Chua’s provocative memoir described a strict method of raising children known as  Tiger parenting. The Yale law professor recalled how she rejected her 4yearold daughter Lulu’s homemade birthday card for being carelessly drawn, threatened to burn her older daughter Sophia’s stuffed animals if she did not improve her piano playing, and never accepted grades…

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THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Tune Out Distractions – and Tune into Happiness

Business, Health & Wellness

Harvey Schachter | Special to The Globe and Mail Oct. 10 2013 Too much noise can knock you off balance. That’s the warning from Shawn Achor, San Antonio, Tex.-based author of the bestselling book The Happiness Advantage and the recently published Before Happiness. But Mr. Achor is not talking about the noise of a neighbour’s stereo blasting away…

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READERS’ DIGEST: How to Develop a Positive Attitude in Six Easy Steps

Health & Wellness

Katie Macdonald | Readers’ Digest Online October 2013 Tell yourself you can change. “Happiness is not the belief you don’t need to change, it’s that you can change,” Achor says. Take a moment to notice the relationship between change and personal growth. Try this: “Write down the three greatest moments of change in your life that have brought you…

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LONDON TIMES: My week being a playful father: a dolphin dad

Parenting

Phil Robinson | September 21, 2013 The summer holidays dragged like a ball and chain and I resorted to preemptive yelling, mostly “No!”, at any request of my sons Caspar, 6, Conrad, 8, and Oscar, 11. By early September, I was keeping a criminal record for each child in my head. I exploded at the smallest infraction. I had rules for just about everything. Parenting…

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BUSINESS STANDARD: Why ‘dolphin parenting’ proves more beneficial while raising kids

Parenting

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…

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WASHINGTON TIMES: Best-selling author Shawn Achor on ‘happiness’

Business, Health & Wellness, Relationships

Paul Mountjoy | WASHINGTON September 18, 2013 Ask anyone what they want in life, and the answer is invariably: “To be happy.” However, the question remains how to achieve this lofty goal and what tools, skills and strategies are necessary to fulfill the goal of personal happiness. This is where best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before…