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“Whether you are coping with a major loss or you are just fearful that one will come your way, there is no time better than the holidays to ponder the aspects of your life for which you are grateful. When we truly feel gratitude throughout our entire being, the world looks a little brighter and things tend to turn in our favor.” continue to read »

Social and Emotional learning builds character traits that provide kids with benefits that last a lifetime and lessons from Personal Growth and Positive Psychology can change the future and our kid’s lives.

From Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill and Samuel Clement Stone to Zig Zigler, Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra and Dr. Wayne Dyer, the message about how to live a life without excuses, doubts, fears and to its absolute fullest has been blasted loud and clear for all of us to hear for a very long time. continue to read »

While looking up statistics from the website of The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) I came across some very interesting articles, and this one captured my attention.  Follow this link to read the full article continue to read »

“Dr Jocelyn Dunphy-Blomfield is a senior lecturer in psychological medicine at Monash University who works in the area as a philosopher with conceptual issues. “I’d be inclined to think unhappiness is when life isn’t full and you feel things are lacking, or you can feel worse than that in suffering pain and anguish,” she said. “It’s when the pain and anguish get to the point that you can’t cope, or lead a reasonably full or functional life that you can be diagnosed as suffering depression in a clinical sense.” continue to read »

“Research on kids’ confidence and intelligence has discovered that smart kids who were aware of their intelligence do not always translate their academic abilities into emotional strength. Kids who scored extremely high on their IQ tests and were praised for their smartness were less likely to try new tasks that seemed hard for them.” continue to read »

“Many struggle with situations at work or home that cannot be altered or avoided. You may find yourself talking with friends and family about increasing levels of stress. It can feel like happiness is more illusive than ever before.

Happiness is different things to different people. To some, it is a life without doubt, anger or sadness. To others, it is the ability to receive pleasant things or to focus on what is good rather than fixing what is wrong. In finding the route to happiness, I am defining happiness as an internal state, usually positive, based on your feelings, traits and strengths. According to Martin Seligman, founder of Positive Psychology and author of Authentic Happiness (2002), there are three levels of happiness: continue to read »

“When you’re in the universe, you’re going to encounter a number of people and situations. However, it’s how you react to these situations that will determine the course of your life and the length of the path to your dreams.” continue to read »

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“If you need to be manifesting more happiness in your life, simply decide to be happy and do it today! The secret to finding happiness is to infuse happiness into all of your activities throughout the day.”

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Every person has the right to live a life of joy, abundance and happiness though so many people don’t realize that they can choose happiness instead of falling victim to the circumstances of life.  It’s really not as complicated as we tend to make it out to be either.  Its about choosing happiness and doing what it takes to find it within yourself, right here, right now. continue to read »

SchooGo is a free online resource that provides parents a well rounded picture of individual schools. SchooGo offers pre-k, elementary, middle and high school information across the US and allows parents to evaluate public schools based on academic performance, student and teacher statistics, and parent and teacher reviews. continue to read »

This is the finding of a study published online in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Dr Ersilia Menesini and colleagues at the Universita’ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, designed the study to investigate whether the age and gender of a child’s siblings predicted whether children were likely to bully, or to become victims of bullying. They also looked for links between sibling bullying and school bullying. continue to read »