The family is the basic cell of human life. In a good family, we receive support, stability, care, and love. The key is mutuality: I have someone to love and someone who loves me as I am, and I relate…
Happiness is relative. We can find people living under very difficult conditions who smile, support one another, and enjoy life, while people surrounded by wealth, success, and comfort might live under constant pressure and rarely experience genuine happiness. Happiness therefore…
What is better, to look at the glass as half full or half empty? In fact, there is another possibility: to fill it completely. If we examine human development, we see that it usually advances through negative pressure. We are…
A child’s success in life depends to a great extent on the ability to connect with other people. We are social beings. Family is important, but throughout life a person constantly enters new environments: school, work, marriage, professional circles, communities,…
What is more important, to love or to feel loved? What can we learn from a mother’s love for our own relationships? Does love hold the secret to happiness? Love is the pleasure we experience from connecting with something we…
Advertisements pursue you everywhere, showing you happy people, as if whispering: You can enjoy this, and this, and this. Is happiness found at the shopping mall? A person looks at others: one opened another small business, another built a chain…
How much does our individual emotional state affect the people around us? How much do others affect us? What is most helpful for improving the collective spirit? Several studies show that it is incorrect to regard a person as an…
“And they lived happily ever after.” When we were children, we were read all kinds of fairy tales that ended with this enchanting phrase. We were promised eternal happiness. Deep inside, therefore, each of us carries some expectation that one…
Communication between parents and teenagers is one of life’s more complex challenges. From the time a child is born until they go out into the world as an independent adult, we need to accompany them through a process in which…
Adolescence. If we deeply understand what children go through from their earliest years, we can help them form their identity. During childhood, a child absorbs impressions. By nature, they have a desire to take the world into themselves, to fill…
The relationship between siblings is actually a model for the relationships we need to build throughout human society. Children have to learn that connection does not mean that they never disagree or fight. They can argue, wrestle, and release their…