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Why Elders Smile
When researchers asked people to rank their own well-being, those who rated themselves most highly were individuals from 82 to 85. This startling statistic comes from a column written by David Brook…
Why Are We Resilient?
By Vanita Sharma for KidSpirit's Resilience issue.
Landing on my high school’s junior varsity tennis team for the third time in a row was devastating.
After spending hours, even years, …
We'd Rather Shock Ourselves than Quietly Sit Alone
Talk to people today about being alone and many of us will admit that it is a very unsettling experience. Given a few unstructured moments, we fill it up with texting others, posting to our social m…
New Love: A Short Shelf Life
In this eye-opening article in The New York Times, Sonya Lyubomirsky reveals some shocking details and insights into marriage. American and European researchers found that the joys and pleasures of …
Mixed Feelings about Watching Animals
We are not surprised by the large role pictures and videos of cute, beautiful, and silly animals (usually cats and dogs) play on the social media. Some people genuinely adore their animal companions…
Is Anxiety a Way of Life for Our Generation?
By Uday Schultz for KidSpirit's Fear and Anxiety Issue.
We are the generation of stress. Generation Z, the Post-Millenials, Gen Tech, the young people of today — we are, more than seemingly eve…
Weaving the Shadow: A Lenten Reflection
Dark Shadows
When I was thirteen, my friend Debra and I would walk to her house after school, plop down on the floor in front of the TV and glue our eyes on the spooky soap opera Dark Shadows.
The Patience to Bear Sorrow
In these times, resilience is enjoying a great deal of support from scholars of psychology as a personal quality that enables people to bounce back from trauma and loss. But in an essay on aeon.co, …
The Future of Robot Caregivers
Large numbers of people are entering the stage of life where they need the services of caregivers to meet their physical and emotional needs, and there are just not enough of these skilled professio…
Midlife Crisis and Then Wisdom
In a thought-provoking article in theatlantic.com, Jonathan Rauch shares some of the feelings of middle age and then moves on to an exploration of wisdom in the last stages of life. Many individuals…