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Your Child Learned the Fun of Healthy Living Today
Trinity School Grade 4 students have lead school-wide service learning this quarter. Their theme? CANCER AWARENESS Fourth Grade students researched to better understand how healthy living can help prevent cancer. They schemed with representatives from other grades about how to [...]
She's Picking on Me!
At one time or another a child will take on one of these roles on the playground: bully, victim, onlooker, or ally. The bully – a person who chooses a sustained pattern of meanness. Not to say that bullying never [...]
Being Mean: Life on the Playground
Meanness happens. Moreover, sometimes meanness comes from your child toward another child. It might be planned. It might be the unthinking brilliance of the opportunity at hand. At some time your child will be mean to someone else. When being [...]
What You See Makes You 10% Happy
So where do you go for the other 90%? Shawn Achor, who spoke recently for the Common Ground Speaker Series, posits that the external world is only 10% predictive of happiness. The characteristics that serve as real predictors of happiness [...]
How to Find Your Gratitude Today
This is Thanksgiving. The day of gathering, of sharing food, of being But what if being grateful feels fake? If gratitude doesn’t feel real, listen to your world. When so and so tells that story AGAIN, Listen for what is [...]
Three Good Things Train Your Brain to Be Happier
Shawn Achor’s third principle in The Happiness Advantage is “The Tetris Effect.” Imagine playing Tetris for days in a row. Students in a study actual did, and for days after they saw Tetris patterns falling when they closed their eyes. [...]
Claim Your Happy
Reading The Happiness Advantage, I learn, with the research sources neatly annotated by Achor along the way, that having a positive outlook or, when down, being able to reclaim a positive outlook has helpful biological results on your body and [...]
Do I Really Want to Be Happy?
A professor in one of my writing classes said that a story can’t survive on goodness alone. Evil, or at least un-good is what creates the story in a story. Check it out. Mary had a little lamb is a [...]
Giants and Rangers Introduce The Happiness Advantage
I’m writing this at the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 5 of the World Series. Right before before me on TV, there is a stadium full of people who are about to be either very happy or very [...]