martes, 2 de junio de 2015

Phrase of Gratitude

Steven E. Snow
Gratitude may be increased by constantly reflecting on our blessings and giving thanks for them in our daily prayers.

Things you need to know of GRATITUDE

The Benefits of Gratitude

Gratitude is an emotion expressing appreciation for what one has—as opposed to, for example, a consumer-driven emphasis on what one wants. Gratitude is getting a great deal of attention as a facet of positive psychology: Studies show that we can deliberately cultivate gratitude, and can increase our well-being and happiness by doing so. In addition, gratefulness—and especially expression of it to others—is associated with increased energy, optimism, and empathy.

viernes, 29 de mayo de 2015

Robert Emmons: What Good Is Gratitude?


This video talks about how important it is to work in everyday life, because gratitude makes us a happy people and live in peace.

Gratitude

this are some benefits of gratitude to you learning 




jueves, 28 de mayo de 2015

Perceverance

 

Amazing Grace

``Grace was a girl who loved stories.'' Empowered by the strength of her imagination and the love of her mother and Nana, this dramatic, creative girl constantly adopts roles and identities: Joan of Arc, Anansi the Spider, Hiawatha, Mowgli, Aladdin. When her class plans a presentation of Peter Pan , ``Grace knew who she wanted to be.'' She holds fast despite her classmates' demurrals; Nana, meanwhile, reminds her granddaughter that she can do anything she imagines. When Nana takes Grace to see a famous black ballerina--``from back home in Trinidad''--the determined youngster is aroused by the performance, and wins the role of her dreams. Featuring colloquial dialogue and endearing characters, Hoffman's ( My Grandma Has Black Hair ) tale is truly inspiring. First-timer Birch contributes evocative, carefully detailed watercolor paintings, which add their own share of emotional power and personal passion. Ages 4-8.

martes, 26 de mayo de 2015

An Incredible History

Even through cancer, Stabelfeldt taught children strength, perseverance

For nearly 40 years, Karen Stabelfeldt taught the children.
As a Christian educator, she taught them the value of faith. As a music director, she taught them the beauty of rhythm, melody, harmony.
She taught compassion by example as a foster parent for children with medical needs, and she taught them strength by continuing to teach through a 15-year battle with cancer.
"She retired in June because she didn't think it would be fair to her students if she didn't make it through the next year," said Andrea Corona, principal of MacDowell Montessori School in Milwaukee, where Stabelfeldt taught since 2008.
"But she came back during the first semester to volunteer."
Stabelfeldt died Thursday at 63.
"She was really good at meeting the individual needs of every child," said Paula Ambos, a teacher at MacDowell and a friend of Stabelfeldt for the past 10 years. "And she really worked hard to educate parents on how best to support their children's development."
She was born Karen Jill Younger on Feb. 15, 1951, the third of five children of George and Mary Janice Younger.
She grew up in West Allis, graduating from Nathan Hale High School before earning a degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
She later earned an associate degree in culinary arts from Milwaukee Area Technical College and a theology degree from Concordia University and studied at the Milwaukee Montessori Training Center, said her husband Kimm Stabelfeldt.
Her Christian education career included work at New Life Community Church in Milwaukee, Brookfield Presbyterian and Trinity Presbyterian in Milwaukee, he said.
"Children are what drove her," said Kimm Stabelfeldt, who is director of Heal the Children of Wisconsin, a nonprofit organization that arranges local medical care for impoverished children from around the world.
Karen and Kimm Stabelfeldt provided foster care for five children brought to Wisconsin through the organization for heart and cosmetic surgery.
"It's a world community. Who is to say when a child is born, that the child can't receive the medical care needed?" Karen Stabelfeldt said in a 1995 newspaper interview.
After she was diagnosed with breast cancer about 15 years ago, Stabelfeldt stopped foster parenting but continued to teach, even through remissions and bouts of reoccurrences that included bone, stomach, intestinal and liver cancer, her husband said.
"Her Montessori training at MacDowell was very taxing, but she was committed to the children to get it done," Kimm Stabelfeldt said.
Karen Stabelfeldt also played the organ at Good Shepherd-Trinity Church and conducted the bell choir at Community United Methodist Church, her husband said.
And even after her illness forced her to leave the payroll at MacDowell in June, Stabelfeldt returned during the fall semester as volunteer, tutoring kids in reading, Corona said.
"She knew she only had a few months left," Corona said. "And she chose to spend it helping our children."
In addition to her husband, Karen Stabelfeldt is survived by daughter Danika Rzentkowski and sons Brett Stabelfeldt and Derek Stabelfeldt.

Karen Stabelfeldt

A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Good Shepherd Trinity Church, 3302 N. Sherman Blvd., with a visitation from noon to 3 p.m.