This post, found in Science Daily, a source for the latest research news, was long overdue and most welcome. The left side of my brain is always edified by hard-core, qualitative and quantitative analysis. This certainly seems to be obvious, but it is wonderful to see it proven.
Many parents today seem to have a dim memory of the real purpose which drives their position. They concentrate on labels, "stuff", and how their children can be an extension of their own unsought dreams. Seeking approval for "doing" or "buying" the right things, , they forget the core responsibility of their job: the modelling, the teaching, and the molding of character. Thus, parents recoil when they see their child tantrum, or be demanding...when that is what they model through their own life.
It is even more interesting to discover that it is not the acts of praying, meditation (all meant to richly enhance one's belief system) which create the happiness. It is the daily, minute-to-minute compassion, verbal teachings of the parents of how to bring divine acts into this world. The smallest of things such as being in a grocery store, and helping someone elderly, or incapacitated, find a product, or reach one on a shelf, is a rich lesson if the moment becomes a teachable moment, i.e., if the parent teaches about compassion, assistance, the oneness of us all........
