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How to Be a Strength-Based Parent

By Lea Waters — 2018

By focusing on our children’s strengths, we can help them flourish—and stop being so critical and worried.

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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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Erin Clabough
2019
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Why Do Kids Act Up?

According to neuroscience, our children are like puppies.

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Alison Escalante
2019
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Dr. Dan Siegel: What Hearing “Yes” Does to Your Child’s Brain

It's not about permissive parenting. It's about using "yes" to find ways to relate, which encourages kids to explore and be resilient, instead of starting at "no," which shuts them down.

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Lu Hanessian
2018
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Positive Psychology: A Personal History

Substantial research found that well-being causes many external benefits, including better physical and mental health.

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Martin Seligman
2019
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