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Helping Kids Think About the Good

The Science of Happiness

Sheltering-at-home with kids? These questions can help them, and us, focus on the good things in life.

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Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence in Ourselves and Our Kids—from Toddlers to Teenagers

How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success? Our confidence develops from understanding and having a mastery over our emotions (aka emotional intelligence)—and helping our children do the same.

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Jennifer S. Miller
2019
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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

This groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Daniel Goleman (foreword)
2010
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Feeling Safe: How to Be Strong and Positive in a Changing World

This much-needed book outlines clear and effective strategies to help you cope with the tension, anxiety, trauma and violence of modern living.

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William Bloom
2025
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Author Harvey Deutschendorf: Emotional Intelligence; What It Is, Why It Is So Essential, And How We Can Increase It

We normally think of intelligence as cognitive intelligence, which is measured by IQ. Our emotional intelligence is looking at how our emotions effect everything that we do and think. We feel before we think.

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Parveen Panwar
2020
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Happiness: Enough Already

Although some 85 percent of Americans say they're pretty happy, the happiness industry sends the insistent message that moderate levels of well-being aren't enough: not only can we all be happier, but we practically have a duty to be so.

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Sharon Begley
2008
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Happiest Place on Earth by Professor Ed Diener

The world authority on happiness and well-being research, Dr. Ed Diener, of the University of Illinois discusses the happiest and unhappiest places on earth according to the latest research in a conversation with Professor Michael B. Frisch of Baylor University.

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Ed Diener
2010
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A Recipe for Happiness from International Authority, Ed Diener

Ed Diener speaks on the recipe to happiness.

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Ed Diener
2014
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Ed Diener on Happiness and Work

Ed Diener on Happiness and Work

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Ed Diener
2010
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Dr. Ed Diener on Happiness and Character Strengths

Ed Diener, Ph.D., ("Dr. Happy"), speaking to his research on happiness that spans over three decades. He discusses the link of "reverse causality" between positive emotions and positive character.

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Ed Diener
2011
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Ed Diener, 2017 Irving K. Barber School Distinguished Speaker Series Highlights

Can individual happiness and societal happiness increase? The science of subjective well-being—happiness, life satisfaction and positive feelings—has grown enormously in the last decade.

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Ed Diener
2018
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Children’s Well-Being