Your child bursts through the door, eyes absolutely shining with excitement. "Mom! Dad! I got the lead in the school play!" Or: "I made the basketball team!" Or: "Look at this picture I drew!" You have exactly three seconds to respond. And according to Dr. Martin Seligman—founder of positive psychology and my instructor at UPenn—how you respond in that moment will either amplify their joy and strengthen your relationship, or quietly diminish both. Here's what stopped me cold

________________________________________________________________________ If you're a parent, you've no doubt noticed: there's a LOT of parenting advice out there. Sleep training methods. Discipline strategies. Screen time rules. Emotional regulation techniques. Everyone has an opinion, and much of it conflicts. So how do you know what actually works? Here's what I'm learning in my Foundations of Positive Psychology course at the University of Pennsylvania: Most of the 200+ ha