Blog Name:	Half Full: Science for Raising Happy Kids
Url:	http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/half_full/
Language:	English
Topics:	happiness, parenting, emotional literacy
Description:	ABOUT HALF FULL: Science for Raising Happy Kids Quick, practical and fun parenting tips from mom and the GGSC executive director Christine Carter. One day last fall, a newspaper columnist was watching her daughter rub her palms raw on the monkey bars while pondering what makes for a happy childhood—when she bumped into a sociologist who was doing the very same thing. That is, watching her daughter rub her palms raw while thinking about raising happy kids. While the columnist had been relying mostly on anecdotal evidence to support her theories, the sociologist had been waking up in the wee hours of the morning to read through research, inclined, as academics are, to pin her theories to studies and statistics. The writer ran an idea past the researcher and a conversation started that is still going strong. Kelly Corrigan and Christine Carter (the sociologist) decided to call their "blogversations" Half Full: Science for Raising Happy Kids because the research has led them to believe that the glass really is half full for parents. Carter has now convinced an originally skeptical Corrigan that happiness is a skill that we can teach children. Both women see this as great cause for optimism. This section of the Greater Good Science Center website helps busy parents raise happy and emotionally literate kids. Emotional literacy—the ability to recognize and respond constructively to our own emotions and those of others—is one of the most important keys to well-being. Social and emotional intelligence is first developed in infancy through interactions with parents and key caregivers; in childhood and adolescence, emotional literacy fosters resilience and helps close academic achievement gaps, promoting gains in nearly every area of children’s lives, including their happiness. By giving parents the tools they need to raise socially and emotionally intelligent children, we can help inoculate children against depression and isolation.
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