Precious Gifts

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Your family is a precious gift.  Think about your life without family.  Your husband or your wife.  Your children.  Your parents.  Your siblings.  Your cousins, aunts and uncles.  Your grandparents.  How empty would your world be without these precious gifts in your life?  Do you tell your family that you love and appreciate them?  If so, how often?  If not, why not?

One of the primary components required for developing healthy family relationships, is thechristmas-present-83119_960_720 expression of admiration towards one another.  Not just when a special occasion arrives, like a birthday or a holiday, but every day.  Every day is a new day and a chance to speak loving thoughts to those that you care about the most.  Can anyone tire from hearing ‘I love you’ or ‘You are beautiful’?  No.  I don’t believe so.  Understand that your expressions of admiration build a fortress that helps guard relationships against difficult times.  Every family faces difficult moments.  Protect your family with a fortress of love.

Your family needs to regularly hear your compliments.  Stay focused on their individual strengths.  Tell each of them what makes you proud of them … today.  Tell each of them what makes you grateful that you have them in your life – today.  Keep speaking your praise towards them and watch what happens.  THEY will achieve greater goals in their lives.  THEY will begin speaking praise over others, including praise over you.

If you cannot find anything complimentary to say, don’t say anything at all.  Smile upon your loved one. Wait until the storm passes within you.  When it does, proceed with expressing your love and your appreciation for them.

Set the example.  Treat your family with respect.  Watch over your children by giving them your undivided attention.  You will unwrap many gifts this holiday season.  Unwrap your most precious gifts, your family, with love and care.

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By, Joanne Henig, President / Co-Founder / Author / #evolution

 

Who Am I?

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Have you ever asked yourself, “Who am I?”  At some point, I bet you’ve considered this question and the answer may have come to you.  As you ponder the answer, consider whether you are living your life within the confines of this answer, if you are living in your ‘now’, or if you are projecting a desired ‘future self’.  Deeper thought may have you wondering if the answer is your spiritual purpose or destiny?  Lots of possibilities to consider as a result of asking one little question.  Let’s contemplate for the moment that there is no right or wrong answer.  Who you are is ever changing based on the choices you make throughout your day and throughout your life.  That makes the question, “Who am I?” a little easier to answer, doesn’t it?  Let me explain further.

Think of the choices that we must make as every aspect of our life unfolds around us.  If we are a parent and we choose to work late versus arriving home in time to tuck our toddler into bed, we’ve chosen career over family in that one moment.  Don’t beat yourself up over this choice.  Instead, notice how it makes you feel.  If you feel in a positive mood over this choice then it is the right choice in that moment for you.  If you feel unsettled as a result of this choice than you may want to reconsider your options next time.  None of us can unlock our true potential or realize our dreams if we keep making choices that make us feel ill at ease or if we make choices to appease others.  On the contrary, we can rise like shooting stars in every area of our life – family, career, abundance, relationships, and so on when our the choices we make soothe our soul and make us feel happy!

Positive Life PathBefore every choice, however, there must be a thought.  Our minds work so quickly to evaluate every scenario we face.  Because you have a supercomputer brain, it is important to keep your thoughts positive and nurturing and loving and compassionate.  A happy brain will choose the happiest options.  Remember, what we think about is what shapes our reality.  As we shape our reality we are also playing a role in shaping the behavior of those around us.  Children, friends, coworkers and total strangers will react to your thoughts.  Yes.  To your thoughts.  If you’re thinking in a joyful way, the choices you make and your overall behavior will be more cheerful.  And so on; and so on.

Change your life for the better (for you).  Shape your choices with your positive thoughts.  Influence your daily experiences and the lives of those around you (your children).  You’re in the driver’s seat.  Take the wheel.  Zip along that newly paved asphalt, smoothly and confidently.

Now ask yourself, Who am I?”  The answer is easy.  You are the creator of your positive, happy, abundant, magnificent life!

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By, Joanne Henig, President & Co-Founder
Joy Kids Universe, LLC
The Law of Attraction for Kids
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The Benefits of Building Friendships

We normally think about our children’s friends as other children whom they play and have fun with, like Casey Rose and the Joybug. But, friends play a more important role in your child’s emotional, social and academic development. They can promote positive and happy emotions.

Friends help your child do better in school. Research conducted through UNC-Chapel Hill showed that, even for students in the first grade, interactions with peers and academic achievement are linked to each other. Further research revealed that, as early as 3 – 5 years of age, peers have an influence on the literacy and language skills of children, and helps them learn freely and joyfully each day.

Friends help your child become a better person. Self-confidence, generosity, and social competence are among the traits that are positively related to having friends. On the flip side, research has shown that children with psychiatric problems have a limited circle of friends, and do not participate often in activities with friends.

The type of friendship changes as a child grows up. Pre-school, children become friends by spending a lot of play time together, sharing toys, and enjoying the same activities. Research shows that when the child enters school, the time spent with peers triples. Children at this age tend to make friends with others of similar gender, age, race, beliefs and attitudes.Joy Kids Making Friends

A “best friend” is somewhat different for a child as time passes. Ask a pre-schooler who his best friends are and the list gets longer until he reaches 11 years old. Then he becomes more choosey. In one oft-cited study, children in the first grade mentioned having common activities as their reason for considering someone a best friend. By the time they reach the eighth grade, the most important criteria for a best friend became the person’s character. Other criteria were: common activities, loyalty, commitment and acceptance. Interestingly enough, none of the children in the study mentioned physical attractiveness as a reason for choosing a best friend. Casey Rose is outgoing and curious, she’s eager to explore the unique universe around her with her best friend, the Joybug.