Christine Carter

¿Qué deseamos para nuestros hijos, por encima de todo?¡Felicidad, naturalmente! Pero¿sabemos en qué consiste la dicha?¿Fomenta nuestra cultura la felicidad o más bien la obstaculiza?¿Están reñidos elexito y la alegria de vivir?¿Que valores debemos transmitir a los jovenes para que sean dichosos? En suma,¿como criar niños felices?El aprendizaje de la felicidad, de la sociologa Christine Carter, ha sido definido como el libro de crianza infantil por excelencia. Basandose en principios cientificos demostrados, la autora nos revela el secreto para garantizar a los niños de cualquier edad no solo una infancia feliz sino tambien una vida plena en la edad adulta: inculcarles aquellas cualidades que enriqueceran su experiencia, como la seguridad, la gratitud y el optimismo. Un libro para leer y releer, empapado de inteligencia, empatia y sentido del humor, cuya sabiduria los niñosy sus padres- agradeceran de por vida.

Four of the most notorious female serial killers are profiled in these biographical essays. Christa Pike would be the youngest woman sentenced to the death penalty for a torture/murder she committed at the age of eighteen. Myra Hindley would be the right hand woman to one of the most hideous serial killers in British history, Ian Brady. Seductress Tausha Morton would bury her husband on his own farm while Clara Harris killed her dentist husband after discovering that he was cheating on her.

Parents of teenagers need a new playbookone that addresses the new challenges they face today.Teens are growing up in an entirely new world, and this has huge implications for our parenting. Understandably, many parents are baffled by problems that didnt exist less than a decade ago, like social media and video game obsession, sexting, and vaping.The New Adolescence is a realistic and reassuring handbook for parents. It offers road-tested, science-based solutions for raising happy, healthy, and successful teenagers.Inside, youll find practical guidance for: Providing the support and structure teens need (while still giving them the autonomy they seek) Influencing and motivating teenagers Helping kids overcome distractions that hinder their learning Protecting them from anxiety, isolation, and depression Fostering the real-world, face-to-face social connections they desperately need Having effective conversations about tough subjects--including sex, drugs, and money A highly acclaimed sociologist and coach at UC Berkeleys Greater Good Science Center and the author of Raising Happiness, Dr. Christine Carter melds researchincluding the latest findings in neuroscience, sociology, and social psychologywith her own (often hilarious) real-world experiences as the mother of four teenagers.

¿Qué deseamos para nuestros hijos, por encima de todo? ¡Felicidad, naturalmente! Pero ¿sabemos en qué consiste la dicha? ¿Fomenta nuestra cultura la felicidad o más bien la obstaculiza? ¿Están reñidos el exito y la alegria de vivir? ¿Que valores debemos transmitir a los jovenes para que sean dichosos? En suma, ¿como criar niños felices?El aprendizaje de la felicidad, de la sociologa Christine Carter, ha sido definido como el libro de crianza infantil por excelencia. Basandose en principios cientificos demostrados, la autora nos revela el secreto para garantizar a los niños de cualquier edad no solo una infancia feliz sino tambien una vida plena en la edad adulta: inculcarles aquellas cualidades que enriqueceran su experiencia, como la seguridad, la gratitud y el optimismo. Un libro para leer y releer, empapado de inteligencia, empatia y sentido del humor, cuya sabiduria los niños y sus padres agradeceran de por vida.

Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone youve glimpsed but cant seem to hold on tothe sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease. Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeleys Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by the busyness of modern life: too many conflicting obligations and not enough time, energy, or patience to get everything done. She tried all the standard techniquesprioritizing, multitasking, delegating, even nappingbut none really worked. Determined to create a less stressful life for herselfwithout giving up her hard-won career success or happiness at homeshe road-tested every research-based tactic that promised to bring more ease into her life. Drawing on her vast knowledge of the latest research related to happiness, productivity, and elite performance, she followed every strategy that promised to give her more energyor that could make her more efficient, creative, or intelligent. Her trials and errors are our reward. In The Sweet Spot, Carter shares the combination of practices that transformed her life from overwhelmed and exhausting to joyful, relaxed, and productive. From instituting daily micro-habits that save time to bigger picture shifts that convert stress into productive and creative energy, The Sweet Spot shows us how to say no strategically and when to say yes with abandon make decisions about routine things once to free our minds to focus on higher priorities stop multitasking and gain efficiency take recess in sync with the brains need for rest use technology in ways that bolster, instead of sap, energy increase your ratio of positive to negative emotions Complete with practical easiest thing tips for instant relief as well as stories from Carters own experience of putting The Sweet Spot into action, this timely and inspiring book will inoculate you against The Overwhelm, letting you in on the possibilities for joy and freedom that come when you stop trying to do everything rightand start doing the right things.ONE OF GREATER GOODS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR[For fans] of a certain kind of self-improvement bookthe kind, like The Happiness Project or 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think or Getting Things Done, that offers up strategies for making certain areas of life work better without requiring that you embrace a new belief system.KJ DellAntonia, The New York Times (Motherlode blog)A breath of fresh air . . . Based on personal experiments with living life in what she calls the pressure cooker, Dr. Carter offers advice in easily digestible nuggets.Working MotherCarter gives actionable ways to balance your life, your health, and your career. This book is packed with smart advice and hard-earned wisdom.Inc.Learn more about escaping the busyness trap and uncovering a happier, less stressed you.ShapeA highly readable, diligently researched advice book that offers concrete tips on how to get off the treadmill of busyness.Greater GoodChock-full of concrete tips on how to shar...

What do we wish most for our children? Next to being healthy, we want them to be happy, of course! Fortunately, a wide array of scientific studies show that happiness is a learned behavior, a muscle we can help our children build and maintain. Drawing on what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have proven about confidence, gratefulness, and optimism, and using her own chaotic and often hilarious real-world adventures as a mom to demonstrate dos and donts in action, Christine Carter, Ph.D, executive director of UC Berkeleys Greater Good Science Center, boils the process down to 10 simple happiness-inducing steps.With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Carter covers the day-to-day pressure points of parentinghow best to discipline, get kids to school and activities on time, and get dinner on the tableas well as the more elusive issues of helping children build healthy friendships and develop emotional intelligence. In these 10 key steps, she helps you interact confidently and consistently with your kids to foster the skills, habits, and mindsets that will set the stage for positive emotions now and into their adolescence and beyond. Inside you will discover the best way avoid raising a bratchanging bad habits into good ones tips on how to change your kids attitude into gratitude the trap of trying to be perfectand how to stay clear of its pitfalls the right way to praise kidsand why too much of the wrong kind can be just as bad as not enough the spirit of kindnesshow to raise kind, compassionate, and loving children strategies for inspiring kids to do boring (but necessary) tasksand become more self-motivated in the process Complete with a series of try this tips, secrets, and strategies,Raising Happiness is a one-of-a-kind resource that will help you instill joy in your kidsand, in the process, become more joyful yourself.