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WinWin Living – Coming Together To Help One Another

…ncludes all of our loved ones, be they two legged or four!) Our feeling of generosity, our very human need to give to others, also falls within this realm. Our home, this earth we share, also falls within this realm. WinWin Living addresses all of these issues, the need for economic restraint, the need to care for our families, the need to offer to others, the need to nurture our planet. WinWin Living does this by offering you significant discount…

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What You Need to Know About Disciplining Your Child

…l reaction in a child. Monetary rewards interfere with the child’s natural generosity and desire to please, and foster calculating attitudes. 4) Avoid cynical, judgmental attitudes that reinforce a child’s sense of badness. Some parents mistakenly believe that their verbal punishments and cynical, judgmental attitudes do not have a damaging effect on their children. They believe that only physical abuse and punishment leave emotional scars. Howeve…

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Comforting Those Who Grieve

…us on Thanksgiving, Hanukah, and his New Year’s Eve birthday, but from the generosity and caring being offered me by a person I hardly knew and had never liked very much. In such a quiet and unassuming way, she showed me real human compassion and understanding. And most important to me at that time, she never asked me a lot of questions or intruded on my privacy. She just let me know she was there if I needed her. Among the items in the basket – e…

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Five Tips for Maintaining Lifelong Friends

…w you feel and take actions that show how well you know and care for them. Generosity is the key to happiness. A good friend shows interest in who we are and what we struggle with, but it is important not to let the relationship become one-sided or to become self-centered in your focus. Be sure to engage in acts of kindness and consideration that are focused on your friends. Do the things that they would perceive as caring. Consider their interest…

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Are You the Parent You Want to Be?

…thought was “support” as pressure, and his daughter was experiencing his “generosity” as entitlement. When we relate to our children in ways that are reacting rather than acting, we often miss the mark on what they actually need from us. Every person is unique, and our children are not mere replicas of ourselves. By looking at ourselves as autonomous individuals and working on ourselves from that perspective, we do our children a great service. M…

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Overcoming Two of Parenting’s Greatest Challenges

…to lead by example and show our child the value and rewards of practicing generosity and having empathy for others, teaching children to be selfless, in the sense of being self-denying or unnecessarily deferring their own wants in favor of another person, can be damaging and later may interfere with their pursuing their own goals in life. One important thing to remember is that discipline should never come from a place of relieving our own anger…

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VIDEO: Mindfulness Meditation and Happiness

…o this very thing. The four limitless ones, for example, talks about love, generosity equanimity and then something they call sympathetic joy. Now normally we hear about sympathy or we hear about joy but we don’t hear about both of them together. But what we need to sort of understand or what was so touching for me to sort of come to understand was that when we’re actually feeling joy, it has a tear with it. It’s not like being at the football gam…

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The Problem with Overpraising Children

…importantly, if we want our kids to be happy, instead of just giving them praise, we must offer them chances to feel good about themselves. We can create opportunities for them to be self-sufficient, generous and compassionate. Research has proven generosity to be the key to happiness and health, so what better gift to give our child than the chance to offer something to the world around them? Not only will this give them self-esteem, but it will…

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How to Love Your Partner the Way They Want to Be Loved

…they seek out a lot of physical contact or take pleasure in small acts of generosity and kindness, they may enjoy the same from us. Of course, this doesn’t have to be taken literally, and no task needs to be matched exactly. For example, it’s perfectly natural for each person to bring certain unique things to the relationship. One partner may very well enjoy doing the other’s laundry, because it makes them happy, while the other prefers big, swee…

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5 Ways to Fight Loneliness Over the Holidays

…hink of a cause that matters to you and take some time to be a part of it. Generosity offers a natural way for us to feel good about ourselves. Plus, being part of a team instantly creates a sense of camaraderie over a shared concern. 5. Stay in the moment, even when it makes you sad Sometimes, it takes being in a room full of people to make us feel our most alone. No matter how many people we pack into the car with us to take to the party, every…

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