“Your children need your presence far more than your presents.” […]
Continue reading...Helping Others is Worth Our Time
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” […]
Continue reading...Warning to Parents: Do Your Kids Suffer from Nature-Deficit Disorder?
“They took all the trees, put them in a tree museum. Then they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them. Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve lost ’til it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” […]
Continue reading...How to Cultivate Inner Peace by Loving What Is
“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single […]
Continue reading...Being A Smart Kid Can Sometimes Spell Trouble
Results of a new longitudinal research study done in the United Kingdom led to the conclusion that high childhood IQ increases the risk of illegal drug use in adolescence and adulthood. “It’s counterintuitive,” said lead author James White. “It’s not what we thought we would find.” The Cardiff University team looked at data from 8,000 people […]
Continue reading...Building a Strong Marriage
One of our most popular books for anyone who wants to read up on the secrets of happy relationships is called The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by psychologist John Gottman and Nan Silver, published in 2000. Gottman revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to observe the habits of married couples […]
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