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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.”

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I like to post on my blog not just my own articles but links to others that I feel provide useful information and tools to promote more happiness in your child’s life and yours, and this article does just that.  Using character education lessons to help your child develop personal values and moral virtues, along with using hands-on daily and weekly activities like doing a gratitude journal with your child will allow you to experience together the lifelong benefits of social and emotional intelligence.

The article I opened this post with deals with a powerful tool that has been proven in long term scientific studies to, without a shadow of doubt, carry benefits that are beyond most people’s ability to believe and to implement into their daily routine.  A lot of people need to see it to believe it, but the truth is we must believe it to see it.  Kids can believe very easily and when they really start to see and feel the effects it is magical to watch as a parent and as speaker to kids.

As adults many of us seem to have been almost programmed to be skeptical about the intense power of our mind and to focus our thoughts toward that which we do not want to happen as well as things we do not have,and in a way we have been.  We have been told “life is hard” and most of us have experienced that first hand so that belief became so real and deeply ingrained, well, you get it, we get what we believe we will get and focus our thought energy upon.  Sure this may sound all self-helpy and personal growthish, but I was sold not only when I studied the real hard science but also when I experienced the effects for myself.  More importantly for me is that I have helped my sons develop the habit of grateful thinking and keeping a gratitude journal, and they too are experiencing the benefits.

Many parents are programming their kids based upon their own dis-empowering, life-limiting and pessimistic beliefs.  This fact is in the research as well, but its in the headlines too and the evidence of deep sadness among our children is to me more than sad.   I really have made it my life’s mission to yell from the rooftops IT ONLY TAKES A FEW MINUTES A DAY TO CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE FUTURE AND BRIGHTEN YOUR CHILD’S MORE THAN YOU MAY IMAGINE!

Granted, its not easy!  I know, it was not easy, but it got easier and easier every single day and its now our (me and my kids) routine every day.  Scheduling myself to journal was not the hardest part, and go figure its the hardest part that has the most profound effect.  It was truly and fully with all my being FEEL the FEELING of a grateful thought.  You know the feeling when you can’t help but smile because of a very happy thought?   That is the feeling I was striving for and this too became easier and easier to do for both me and my boys.

Thanks so much for reading my blog and remember to forward the link to my website to every parent you know so they can download their FREE copy of The Ultimate Kid’s Guide to Happiness for their kid’s too.