“I just want to be happy!” Young and old, male and female, rich and poor, we utter these six simple words. If you ask parents what they most want for their kids, they say the same thing—“I just want them to be happy.” Why is this precious human emotion so available to some and so […]
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.” […]
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 […]
