“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.” -Jim Rohn The wish to seek and have a deep sense of family connection and commitment is universal. Ask people what is most important to them and their first answer is always the […]
Research on Doing a Good Deed Can Help Families
Research now shows that even watching someone else do a good deed makes us feel better. The study is reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Scientists call this effect “mood elevation”, meaning that it makes our moods cheerier, but now we know that it also makes the observer even more likely to do […]
Inspirational Books for Children & Teens About Giving
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson No matter what the age of your children, there are many wonderful books that can inspire you and your family to find ways to give back in your community. One of the gentle souls who taught children (and adults) about […]
Happy Families Serve Others
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.” […]
The Importance of Family Meals
Numerous research findings have documented the positive impact of having family dinners. Not only do kids get better nutrition, sharing meals as a family has been found to give kids a boost in the classroom, improve language skills in preschoolers, increase communication, and overall promote better adjustment of kids. Some of you may remember in the […]
Building Family Rituals
For more help with Key #4, Sharing Time Together… When you ask adults about positive experiences from their childhood, it is no surprise that many of their answers involve favorite family traditions. One of my fond memories growing up (which will surely date me) is Sunday night dinners, the only night we were allowed to […]
