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They make sure Mom is happy
There’s some credence to the phrase “Happy wife, happy life.” 
That’s according to researchers from the Marriage Foundation and 
the University of Lincoln who analyzed data from the Millennium 
Cohort study, a longitudinal survey conducted at the University of 
London, from which they gathered information regarding 13,000 
U.K. couples with a child born in 2000 or 2001. They looked at 
how satisfied the couple was with their relationship when the child 
was nine months old. 
Science Says the Most 
Successful Kids Have 
Parents Who Do These 
5 Things
BY CHRISTINA DESMARAIS@SALUBRIOUSDISH

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“TRYING HARD 
IS IMPORTANT.”
They then fast-forwarded 14 years to determine how happy the 
couple was, whether they were even still together, if their teenagers 
were displaying mental health problems, and how close the 
parents reported being with their teenagers.
It turns out that all four outcomes were more linked with the 
mother’s initial happiness, compared with the father’s. For 
example, Mom’s happiness was twice as important than Dad’s 
when it came to whether or not they would stay together. 
Mom’s happiness was also twice as important when it came to 
predicting mental health issues in boys. As for girls, only their 
mother’s happiness was found to be linked to their mental health 
as teens.
They role-model persistence
Imagine what your child’s future would look like if he or she 
had the ability to persist in the face of challenges. Apparently, 
how you model your own persistence as a parent has a lot to do 
with it, say researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). They looked at how 
well 520 four- and five-year-olds persisted by observing how much 
effort adults put into the same task. They also studied how the kids’ 
persistence was affected by what adults said, such as “Trying hard 
is important.” Children persisted the most when adults themselves 
expended effort at a task and talked about the necessity of pushing 
through, even with things get hard. 

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EIGHTY-FIVE 
PERCENT 
FEEL THAT 
LESSONS HAVE 
IMPROVED 
THEIR CHILD’S 
PATIENCE, 
RESILIENCY 
AND ABILITY TO 
FINISH TASKS, 
EVEN HARD 
ONES.