In doing this, they become gratitude mentors for others. Empower. Make room for kid-led gratitude initiatives by giving them the tools and freedom to create gratitude experiences for themselves and for others. For example, at home, let kids design and lead a family gratitude jar—they decide how it works, decorate it, and choose when to share ...
Psychology Today: Gratitude and Neuroscience: How a Mason Jar Is Changing Lives
A couple of days ago, my daughter and I started a family gratitude jar. We found an old glass jar, decorated it with stickers and Sharpies, and set it in the middle of our kitchen table. The rule is ...
Alaska Dispatch News: OPINION: I’m a curmudgeon. I tried a gratitude jar to change my grumpy ways.
For the second year in a row, my husband and I agreed to participate in a gratitude challenge, where we’d deposit almost a year’s worth of notes -- our private thoughts -- into a large glass Mason jar ...
OPINION: I’m a curmudgeon. I tried a gratitude jar to change my grumpy ways.
Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.” “First,” he writes, “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received.” In the second part of gratitude, he explains ...
New research is starting to explore how gratitude works to improve our mental health.