The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy

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Outlining a five-step plan that parents can use to help their children achieve lifelong happiness, the co-author of Driven to Distraction emphasizes the role of connection, play, practice, mastery, and recognition in raising youngsters with a healthy self-esteem, moral awareness, and spiritual value

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Ned Hallowell possesses the most inspiring and optimistic voice emerging from the American medical community today. . . . He brings his scientific knowledge and his generous heart to bear on the problems that afflict our lives and those of our children, and we are the better for his unique vision.
MICHAEL THOMPSON, Ph.D.
New York Times bestselling coauthor of
Raising Cain and Best Friends, Worst Enemies

Dr. Hallowell writes not only with wisdom and experience, but also with heart. In clear, sparkling language, he provides us with practical, engaging ideas about what really matters in childhood. His joy and resilience are contagious.
HARRIET LERNER, Ph.D.
New York Times bestselling author of The Dance of Anger

A masterpiece . . . Magical and must reading, this book needs to be read and reread by all parents who struggle to chart the best course for their children.
PETER S. JENSEN, M.D.
Center for the Advancement of Childrens Mental Health
Department of Child Psychiatry
Columbia University/NY State Psychiatric Institute

Author Bio

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, Massachusetts, an outpatient treatment center serving children and adults with a wide range of emotional and learning problems. He is the coauthor of Driven to Distraction (with John J. Ratey, M.D.) and the author of When You Worry About the Child You Love, Worry, and Connect, among other titles. He and his wife have three children and they live in Arlington, Massachusetts. He welcomes hearing from readers, and can be reached through his Web site- www.DrHallowell.com. From the Hardcover edition.