Most parents report wanting to raise a kind and generous child. The keys to increasing kind and generous actions in children are strategic reinforcement and modeling, based upon an article in the New York Times.
Studies indicate that ...
Read MoreAs little as eight weeks of meditation training may be able to increase an individual's compassion for others, according to a recent article in the New York Times by Dr. David DeSteno.
Dr. DeSteno conducted a study of individual's compassion towards other's in the face of suffering. He found that people demonstrated increased rates of compassion after they completed an eight week meditation course. His hypothesis is that ...
Read MoreTeaching the benefits of honesty is more effective than teaching the negative consequences of lying, according to a recent study which explored means of increasing honesty in children.
Dr. Kang Lee, a professor of human development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto, has spent over a decade studying honesty and dishonesty in children, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. In June 2014 Dr. Lee published a study in Psychological Science which looked at the impact morality based stories have upon the probability that a child will be honest.
According to Dr. Lee ...
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