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Entries by Christine Carter, PhD from 05/2010

The Trouble with Motherhood

| Posted 05.03.2010 | Healthy Living
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Maybe we expect too much happiness out of child-rearing. Should we accept that kids are a lot of work, and they are necessarily going to drain the cheer right out of us? I don't think so, actually.

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Rigging Kids' Brains for Happy Memories (VIDEO)

| Posted 05.27.2010 | Healthy Living
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our mind acts like Teflon for positive memories and Velcro for negative ones. This isn't good for our happiness: If most of our memories are negative, we perceive the world as threatening.

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