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Attending to Our Children’s Attention Span

Building the Foundation for Resiliency Skills

Live and Play in Your World: Stimulus Addiction and the Growing Brain

Looking for Meaning in All the Right Places

Parenting Today: The World Has Changed, Have We?

Parenting as a Living System

Reading the Screen

Screen Time and Obesity

Screen Violence: Impact on Self as Relational Being

Teaching Children Gratefulness

Teaching Children Gratefulness (cont.)

No matter how hectic life becomes, make time to do what you love and what energizes you and your family. Notice what your child loves to do and encourage it—where his talents shine; where her skills are developed. The light in our child’s eyes, the smile on her face; the way he stands—all translate the measure of aliveness he/she is feeling. And that, of course makes most parents feel positively fully alive!

References

1.         Charles Johnston, M. D., The Creative Imperative: A Four-Dimensional Theory of Human Growth and Planetary Evolution, Celestial Arts, 1986, pp. 11 and 43.

2.         Brother David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, The Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness, Paulist Press, 1984, p. 23.

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