Empathy

  • You Want Some Kitchen Cabinets For Your Loneliness?

    You Want Some Kitchen Cabinets For Your Loneliness?

    It’s scary how much of our digital lives get shared. I was contemplating a small kitchen cabinet refacing project last month and submitted a quote to one vendor. Since then, my inbox and voicemails have been flooded with random contractors and remodeling agencies pestering me. Unfortunately, I inadvertently took one of those sales calls, and…

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  • Get Me Some True Love

    Get Me Some True Love

    In fairytales, a true love’s kiss conquers all evils and vanquishes all illnesses, but true love isn’t always pleasant in real life. Love means allowing your kids to fail; setting boundaries so there would be long-term safety.  It involves making difficult decisions and sticking by your loved ones even when they’re no longer so lovely.…

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  • Talking  Back

    Talking Back

    If you can’t regulate your emotions, your kid will struggle to regulate their own.  You ask your kid to do something. They say something rude or snippy in return. You feel the need to correct this behavior, so you shout back at them for being rude, they shout back at you, and you’re back in…

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  • How to get your kids to……Motivate Your Kids to Get Things Done

    How to get your kids to……
    Motivate Your Kids to Get Things Done

    “Put the dishes away when you’re done.”             “Don’t take your sister’s toys without asking her first.” How often do you feel like a broken record?  Between after-school activities, homework, video games, soccer practice, and just keeping up with life, getting your kids to do what they’re supposed to do sometimes feels herculean and impossible.…

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  • Thinking Outside of the Box Yourself for a Happier Life

    Thinking Outside of the Box Yourself for a Happier Life

    Much of our own unhappiness and the world’s problems disappears when we can put ourselves in someone else’s shoes. Everyone has a different story, and understanding their perspectives not only make you feel better about any situations (even upsetting ones) but improve your overall happiness. Babies start out in life completely egocentric, only aware of…

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  • Developing Emotional Intelligence in Children

    Emotional Intelligence means we are in tune with our emotions and use this information to deal with them in the most effective and healthy way possible. The challenges of the past few weeks, and uncertainty of the near future is possibly some of the most emotionally difficult time you and your family have experienced. There…

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  • Why is curaJOY holding a writing contest?

    Why is curaJOY holding a writing contest?

    The past year has challenged most families more than we could have ever imagined. Kids have had to adapt to virtual schooling, changing lockdown situations, missed team competitions and family visits, their teachers and parents’ working at home and the anxiety caused by these uncertainties–their own and those around them. We’ve also witnessed that words…

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  • A person in need

    A person in need

    A few months ago, I was consoling a friend who had recently lost all her companions, been shunned out of school, and had rumors spread about them for just being themselves. Since COVID-19 quarantine was still going on, we could only communicate through text. She was thinking of suicide and I was just there, peppering…

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  • My child is getting very frustrated by curaJOY’s games.

    My child is getting very frustrated by curaJOY’s games.

    All of curaJOY’s StrengthBuilder are professionally designed and validated to assess and build resilience and cooperation as well as other key strengths such as communication, confidence, self discipline and empathy. Remind your child that this game is all about practicing and learning. We don’t often get anything right on the first try, but if we…

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