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Research-backed ways of raising happy children

1.  Be a happy parent

Research shows that your level of happiness impacts your child’s. Depressed and sullen parents more often have children with behavioral problems especially at teenage. While there was no confirmed genetic component, the study results were clear that depressed or sullen unhappy parents’ parenting was less effective than their happier counterparts.

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