Parenting has never been easy, and though today it may not be any harder than in the past, we do have new challenges to overcome. So how do we raise confident, independent children who can not only survive, but more importantly, thrive in today's world? Thankfully, that's the very question Dr. Ben Burris addresses in his fresh outlook on parenting, "Raising Happy, Independent Kids."

As an orthodontist who's worked with tens of thousands of kids, Dr. Burris began noticing that his happiest and most self-reliant young patients all had one thing in common-relaxed parents. Not pushover...