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INTERVIEW: Can early education make your children happy adults?

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Jessica Joelle Alexander is a parenting expert, author and cultural researcher, with a specific expertise in the Danish parenting approach. Alexander is also the co-founder of 'Raising Digital Citizens', which aims to support families to have conversations around values in the online space. Denmark has been ranked among the 'happiest' countries in the world for more than a decade and a big part of this ranking has been linked to learning empathy from a young age. Her books and research explores this concept - and how parents can foster compassion, resilience, emotional-intelligence and human connection from an early age.

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