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Key to adult happiness is buzzing social life in childhood and teen years

Attention tiger moms and dads: if you want your kids to grow up into happy, well-adjusted adults, best lay off the academic pressure and focus on fostering a social network full of strong relationships for your children.

Want your kids to become happy, well-adjusted adults? Foster early friendships and social activity with others, says a new study.

That's the underlying message from a new study out of Australia which found that positive early social connectivity with parents, friends, peers and school -- not academic excellence -- was more likely to lead to happier adults.

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    Discussion 1 : 22 Aug 2012 at 23.411

    Definitely somewhat true. The danger is to not involve or expose the children or challenge them to do other things that are not natively easy, such as think deeply, meditate, work hard, study alone on some difficult topic like science or math or engineering. If they just play, they will NOT be prepared for real life and surviving when they leave the nest.

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