“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.” […]
Practicing Gratefulness Can Improve Your Family’s Health
“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” -Tecumseh, Shawnee leader The world’s religious teachers, ancient philosophers, and indigenous people have spoken […]
Did You Say Thank You Today?
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart This quote really got me thinking. People generally pray for something. And we generally pray […]
How to Improve Positive Thinking and Behavior
Research on happy, healthy families (and happy, healthy individuals as well) shows that the parents in these families emphasize the positive, yearning to bring out the best in one another in spite of individual differences in temperament, talents or interests. Studies of successful families from diverse backgrounds share this common thread. They teach core values such as honesty, fairness, […]
The Importance of Positive Thinking in Healthy Families
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats”. -Voltaire We loved this quote so much that we chose to include it instead of many other wonderful quotes on positivity in our discussion about seeing the positive in How’s Your Family Really Doing? A crucial element of being resilient, or bouncing […]
Human Generosity
A team of scientists at UC Santa Barbara recently published some interesting and hopeful findings about human nature in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (July 25, 2011). Whereas traditional theories from evolutionary biology and economic theory would have predicted that acting generous, defined as helping others without any guarantee of […]
