Help Your Kids Develop the 2 Keys to Happiness According to Researchers Worldwide!

Would you like your children to grow up to be well-adjusted generally happy adults? Researchers have pinpointed two keys to human well-being—no matter how much money you make, education you have, or what culture you come from. And these keys are — drum-roll please — GENEROSITY and GRATITUDE. In fact, scientists can track what happens […]

5 Ways to Help Kids Become Grateful and Generous

Welcome to part 2 of the Brain Stages Emotional Quotient Series. (In case you missed it, here’s part 1: 6 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy.) You’ve likely heard that gratefulness and generosity make us happier, but did you know that scientists can track what happens in the brain when we practice these attributes?[1] When we […]

4 Ways to Make Gift Giving Great in Your Family

I read a hilarious post a mom wrote about how her expectations of Christmas morning turned out wildly different than the reality. Her fantasy of sharing warm moments of love, appreciation, and togetherness with her family shattered into a self-absorbed, paper-flying frenzy that ended in palpable disappointment with a highly anticipated moment ending too soon.I […]