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With Elmo's Help... It's Never Too Early to Learn About Happiness

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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How to Teach Difficult Concepts

Parents often talk to themselves in incredibly mean ways. When you hear yourself on that ruminative loop where you're saying, oh, I suck, I didn't do that well, I'm not doing enough, I'm doing enough, and that's when you take a moment to label that thought. You give it a name. My Yale students like to use Karen, as she thinks Karen is like a meme. But we can say, that's my Oscar voice. Like, I'm just being a grouch to myself today,. So that's just a hack that you can all use.

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