What do you want for your family in 2010? How about more peaceful dinnertimes? Calmer mornings getting ready for school? An end to nagging kids to do those boring but necessary tasks?
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I am not a particularly religious person. I have been taking my kids to our local Unitarian Universalist church in the hopes that they will get a broad religious education and some of that good ole love-your-neighbor doctrine instilled in their blood...
The kids and I are preparing to go to a friend’s party, where we’ll be wrapping presents for less-fortunate children, like those spending Christmas in one of our local hospitals. Also knowing that the Salvation Army near us has said it’s short on toys...
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Nurturing your child’s sense of humor is no joking matter. Laughing loud is a healthy way for her to manage life’s little stresses. Now that Christmas is just around the corner, find a way to make your child laugh, I think it’s the best gift that you...
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The holidays are upon us! As I discuss in this video and this posting, there are lots of ways to counter the rampant materialism and hyper-busyness of the holidays (remembering that neither consumerism nor being crazy-busy makes us happy). This weekend...
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” –―Johannes A. Gaertner
Gratitude is a part of the happiness holy grail: compared with those who aren’t practicing...
Peter Dunn - University of Warwick Research by the University of Warwick and the University of Manchester finds that psychological therapy could be 32 times more cost effective at making you happy than simply obtaining more money. The research has obvious...
Is it worth staying in a marriage that makes you unhappy? That question has generated more than a little heat on this blog. But in order to answer that question, we have to answer an even deeper one: Does happiness actually matter? Is happiness really...
San Francisco State University No pain, no gain applies to happiness, too, according to new research published online this week in the Journal of Happiness Studies . People who work hard at improving a skill or ability, such as mastering a math problem...
As Halloween excitement mounts in our household and the nip of fall is finally forcing us to find our jackets (I know, it is good to be a Californian), one thing is clear: The holidays are right around the corner.
I’m the first to feel annoyed when I...