Check out my article «Promoting a Spirit
of Gratefulness in Kids — A Tale of Two Letters» on today's NBC Parent Toolkit Blog.
The holidays are an especially good time for expressing
gratefulness for all of life's gifts.
My partner contributor, Amy McCready, founder of Positive Parenting Solutions and TODAY Show Contributor, and I offered our ideas for cultivating
gratefulness in our families lives along with input from many organizations, scholars, parents and other individuals who were interested in the topic.
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Expressing gratefulness during personal adversity like loss or chronic illness, as hard as that might be, can help you adjust, move on, and perhaps begin anew,» Lyubomirsky says.
Gratitude journals: Give students weekly writing prompts, for example, «Tell about three things you are grateful for and why» or «Write about a time when someone
showed gratefulness toward you.»
Or it might be that sometimes horror's job isn't catharsis or leaving the audience gasping
with gratefulness over still being alive when the final credits roll; maybe it's meant to leave that audience feeling bad and ugly inside.
Unlike cherishing your partner, which
nurtures gratefulness for what you have, «if only» nurtures resentfulness towards your partner.
«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling
more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.
Strategies will involve kids in household chores, promote sibling care and
cultivate gratefulness as a family.
A thank - you letter of resignation is a kind of resignation letter which emphasizes the employee's
gratefulness towards his or her employers and superiors.
Instead of letting the guilt of our lack of suffering leave us helpless, we give thanks for being unscathed, and show that
gratefulness by climbing down into the trenches with the bloodied and binding up the wounds of the broken.
Through my life the exercise has differed, due to changed needs and circumstanses — but there is always something you can do to get that feeling of joy and
gratefulness over your body...
Gratefulness doesn't come easily to me, but by God's grace I try to thank Him as much as I can!
In my experience all the focus on obedience and sacrifice tends to make our walk with Christ one of prideful personal accomplishment rather than
humble gratefulness for the grace of the cross.
Yet while contentment is certainly an important lesson, I am convinced that people living on the margins have so much more to teach us than
shallow gratefulness for material things.
As I am beginning to spend more time in the kitchen with these recipes, I see how the preparation of one meal can
bring gratefulness, anticipation, joy, accomplishment and indulgence!
I have a
morning gratefulness practice of putting my hands toward the ceiling and going over everything I am grateful for in that moment.
Without dedication you won't get anywhere no matter if it's in your personal or professional life and
without gratefulness you'll just end up being one bitter mofo (excuse my language) to be honest.
Activities that
foster gratefulness have benefits for students beyond enhancing their social and emotional skills.
You know... something extra sexy that would awe the ordinary taxpayer into a state of
silly gratefulness.
But the dismay at the major increase in prices is tempered by a sort of
desperate gratefulness that the publisher is willing to play ball with libraries at all.
They will know this and give you all the sandpaper kisses and snuggles to prove their
eternal gratefulness for saving them.
Gratefulness gives you genuine joy which you will spread to other people through association.
In one particular study, a group of participants was asked to write down five things that
generated gratefulness once a week for ten weeks.
As we shared our ideas and learned from others, it occurred to me that living a grateful life in the busy, messy context of a family means finding small opportunities during each regular day to
make gratefulness a habit.
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From time to time, I go through being discontented for whatever reason... I just hate it when I feel that way ~ but alas I can't even complain about that too much because soon enough my grumbling brings me to a place of
gratefulness where I realize just how incredibly blessed I am (a bit of a contradiction, this I know).
«Love and romance and trust are conscious decisions to cherish what is wonderful about your partner and
nurture gratefulness for what you have.
Norma Saunders, President of the Bronx River Houses Tenant Association made the following remarks: «They say that when you
practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect towards others.
Thanksgiving is a time when families come together and
remember gratefulness to our family members and to Jesus, Our Lord and Saviour.
Most exciting, though, is the finding that the participants whoâ $ ™ d completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling
more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.
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