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Happier Parents, Happier Kids Pt 1: Your Child Isn't a VIP or a Fragile Vase

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Are You Happy There? Is There a Happier Path to Parenting?

Science journalist and mother, Michaeline Dukleff, was asked to report on a surprising new study. Researchers had observed that children who grew up in Mayan villages scored twice as well on tests of attention than middle-class kids raised in California. Her research became a book, Hunt Gather Parent: What ancient cultures can teach us about the lost art of raising happy, helpful humans.

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