Caring

Teacher Appreciation Week: A Celebration of Caring

Meryl Ain, Ed.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Teacher Appreciation Week, Caring Principals, Caring Schools, Caring, Standardized Testing, Teachers College Columbia University, Teachers, National Teacher Appreciation Week, Columbia University Teachers College, Education News
Meryl Ain, Ed.D.

There is not a magic bullet for education that can be imposed from the outside. Caring teachers, led by caring principals, have been and continue to be the solution.

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What Would It Take to Get Us to Care About Torture?

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Mental Health, Jane Mayer, Memo, Caring, Martin Seligman, Torture, Bush, Barbara Ehrenreich, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

I am aiming the question first at mental health practitioners since the idea of helping people towards sanity and well-being has been supported by the...

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Generosity or Greed -- It's a Matter of Choice

Judith Johnson | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Generosity, Greed, Sasha Dichter, American Greed, The Highest Good, Corporate Greed, Oneness, INSIDE OUT, Caring, The Golden Rule, Nipun Mehta, Compassion, Outside In, Happiness, Mindfulness, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News
Judith Johnson

When we look outward instead of inward, it is easy to become disconnected from a deep sense of the relevance of our being and our connection to one another.

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Kind-ness

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Religion, Relationships, Kindness, Community, Caring, Patience, Love, Spirituality, Healthy Living Health News, Happiness, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News
Sarah O'Leary

Imagine if we could look at all of the citizens of the planet with kind-ness. If we looked at how alike we are, rather than how different.

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Feel Cared About

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Mind Brain, Relationships, Thoughts and Feelings, Positive Psychology, Neuroscience, Contemplative Practice, Mindfulness, Child Attachment, Meditation, Caring, Love, Healthy Living Mind, Consciousness, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Sometimes we feel embarrassed about our yearnings to be cared about. But they are completely normal. Love has been the primary driver of the development of the brain over the last 80 million years.

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Society's Invisible People

Michael J. McCarthy | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Equality, The Downtrodden, Homelessness, Helping Others, Kindness, Caring, Giving Nature, Respect, Society's Invisible People, Love, Compassion, Denver Homeless, The Less Fortunate, Hope, Denver News
Michael J. McCarthy

They are victims of urban plight and inner city decay -- the poor and the downtrodden. They include the homeless, mentally ill, unwed mothers on welfare, runaway teens, ex-offenders.

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Mother's Day: It's Complicated

Dr. Cheryl Pappas | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychology, Caring, Childhood, Mother's Day, Mother's Influence, Mothering, Healthy Living News
Dr. Cheryl Pappas

It's easy to cast a critical eye on the methods and imperfections of our mothers. Let's not today. Let's just identify the unheralded gift of having had a mother who authentically cared.

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Shocker: Empathy Dropped 40% in College Students Since 2000

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Poverty, Empathy, Crime, Children, College, Income Inequality, Kindness, Caring, Development, Compassion, Happiness, Healthy Living News
Maia Szalavitz

What can be done about what President Obama as a candidate presciently labeled the "empathy deficit"? The key thing is to recognize the value of relationships and the fact that we are not independent but interdependent.

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Government Must Give a ****: A Lesson from @garyvee

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Caring, Gary Vaynerchuk, Technology, Government 2.0, Sxsw, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

Governments can use technology in a simple yet powerful way: just to show that they care. The technology implementation happening under the umbrella o...

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Could You Be More Loving? Please?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Caring, Loving, Attitude, Positive Attitude, Happiness, The Inner Life, Love, Intimacy, Healthy Living News
Russell Bishop

Can you imagine being more loving in your daily life? Not just with family and friends, but with co-workers, people on the subway, or just plain old strangers?

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Empathy and the Economy

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stress, Caring, Trust, Empathy, Income Inequality, Health, Economy, Healthy Living News
Maia Szalavitz

The countries with the least economic inequality have the highest reported happiness, the longest life expectancies, and the lowest rates of crime and infant mortality.

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Friendship, Caring, and "The Call List"

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 02.16.2010

Read More: Friendship, Chappaqua, Loneliness, Sickness, Call List, Time, Relationships, Workplace, Jane Wild, Breaking News, Caring, Phone Calls, Living, Illness, Death, Communication, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Like hand-penned letters, the number of phone calls being made is decreasing relative to other types of electronic communications.

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Is Breastfeeding Better Than Formula Feeding? What You Should Choose

Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Working Mother, Working Mothers, Children, Baby, Child Bearing, Raising Children, Formula, Hormones, Infant Nurturing, Stress, Norway, Baby Bottles, Fda, Kids, Enfamil, Hormone Levels, Development, Love, American Pregnancy Association, Parents, Child Development, Aging, Testosterone in the Womb, Breastfeeding, Bbc, Testosterone, Nurturing, Growth, Parenting, Babies, Obesity, Stress Reduction, Sven Carlsen, Sven Carlson, Infants, Formula Feeding, Kidshealth, Caring, Bottle Feeding, Eating, Unicef, Healthy Living News
Ramon Resa, MD

Is breastfeeding better than formula feeding? Every mother contemplates this question. Many instinctively "feel" that breastfeeding will lead to bette...

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Who You Are Makes A Difference

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Blaise Pascal, Connecting, Twitter, Human Spirit, Thanksgiving, E M Forster, Caring, Kahlil Gibran, Facebook, Love, Jimi Hendrix, Relationships, The Giving Life, Anne Naylor, Healthy Living News
Anne Naylor

As we end the year, and Thanksgiving approaches this is a good time for taking stock. Who has made a difference in your life? Have you been able to make a difference in someone else's life?

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Would You Rather Be Loving Or Loved?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Caring, Loving, The Inner Life, Peace, Russell Bishop, How to Be Loved, Love, How to Love, Healthy Living News
Russell Bishop

Most people would prefer to experience loving and to be loved over just about any other qualitative experience in life.

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The Secret of Patient Care: Lessons From A Bathroom Wall

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Caring, Patient, Healing, Doctor, Empathy, Compassion, Health, Patient Care, Healthy Living News
Dr. Larry Dossey

When physicians express caring, empathy, and compassion, the duration and severity of illness are often reduced and the body's immune system is stimulated.

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Fatherhood Makes You Smarter

utne.com | Katie Leo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Caring, Fatherhood, Parenting, Brain, Children, Wellness, Family, Healthy Living News

While recent studies show that pregnancy and childbirth positively alter the brain chemistry of mothers, could parenting have a similar impact on men?...

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Does A Recession Make Us Less Compassionate?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Kindness, Inner Life, Compassion, Living, Caring, The Inner Life, Neighbors, Tea, Healthy Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

When we have money we tend to build a bigger house and then we have to put a fence around it to keep people out, and then we have to become wary of an...

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The Four Not-Good-for-Anyone Effects of Worry

Margaret Ruth | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Worry, Caring, Family, Anxiety, Crises, Love, Stress, Concern, Supportive, Healthy Living News
Margaret Ruth

Worry is one of the worst possible energies with which to shower someone. If more of us understood what we were doing with our nervous apprehensions, we would cut back on this practice immediately

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Am I My Brother's Keeper?

John Morton | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Bible, John Morton, Bible, Brother's Keeper, Spiritual, Enemies, Talking to Enemies, Caring, Loving, God, Love, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Lord, Healthy Living News
John Morton

Our feelings towards our brothers or sisters aren't truly about anybody or anything against us. Ultimately, our experience of loving our enemies reveals how we are with loving ourselves.

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Change for the Aged

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Elderly, Grandmother, Eastern Culture, Why We Hate US, Aging, Service, Old People, Hawaii, Asia, Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimers, Family Values, Values, Caring, Alzheimer's, Love, Family, Healthy Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

At a time when our country is in a paroxysm of economic self-doubt and cleansing itself of corruption, it is tempting to equate what has come before with "old" and the incoming, the new, with "young".

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A Jew's Prayer for the Children of Gaza

Bradley Burston | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Gaza, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel Gaza, Israel, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, Emotion, Empathy, Caring for Children, Praying, The Power of Prayer, Emotions, Sympathy, Caring, Prayer, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Bradley Burston

In this day, when the trepidation and rage and mourning that is called war, seizes our hearts and patches them in scars, we call to you, the Lord whose name is Peace.

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The Impact of Kindness: Riches and Regrets

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health, Principals, Holiday Reflections, High School, Caring, Teachers, Love, The New Year, Compassion, Kindness, Holiday Season Commentary, Healthy Living News
SaraKay Smullens

I find myself looking back and remembering those who showed me enormous kindness -- as well as opportunities for kindness to those I had not been deeply involved with.

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In the Spirit of the Season

Paula Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion, Military, Handmaidens of Kleptocracy, War, Homeless, Community, Caring, Chaplains, Global Warming, Season, Healthy Living News
Paula Gordon

Troubled by the bitter ironies and profound contradictions military chaplains embody, I took a long walk. The inescapable facts are that the military...

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Caring Is The New Cool

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Caring, Debbie Downer, Hipsters, Style, Caring Is Cool, Positivity, Healthy Living News
Verena von Pfetten

At first I thought this week's Style column had to be about Fashion Week (for the sake of relevance), but then I realized that no one but New Yorkers ...

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