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.

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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.

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An Incredible History

Even through cancer, Stabelfeldt taught children strength, perseverance

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Karen Stabelfeldt taught at MacDowell Montessori School in Milwaukee.

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.

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• Improve your sleep hygiene by establishing regular sleep time, eating 3-4 hours before sleeping, avoiding doing any work in the bed, not taking caffeine late in the evening, etc. Notice changes in your energy level.
• Do a physically rigorous activity (bike riding, running, sports singing, playing) that you always wanted to do but have not done yet.
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Zest Quest is a 501 c 3 non profit organization whose mission is to educate and inspire children to live healthier lifestyles.  Through an interactive coaching and mentoring model, the vision of Zest Quest® is to create an environment that inspires children to lead physically, emotionally and intellectually healthier lives.  Alexander Elementary School has been involved with Zest Quest since its beginning in 2004.  Zest Quest provides Alexander Elementary, and other schools in South and North Carolinas with a curriculum focusing on seven daily healthy habits (link), mentor program, and a Wellness Coach to facilitate the program.   *Daily Healthy Habits Eat 3 or more servings of vegetables. Eat 2 or more servings of fruit. Limit sugary drink intake. Limit TV viewing and video game playing. Achieve 60 minutes of physical activity. Eat a healthy breakfast. Sleep 9 hours or more.  Mr. David Hughes serves as the Wellness Coach at Alexander and is in his second year at the school.  Mr. Hughes inspires and educates the children in weekly class time instruction and before and after school programs.  Mr. Hughes also facilitates the mentor program in which community volunteers come to Alexander to help our children with their health and wellness.  Community sources for volunteers include the  Parker Fire Department and Greenville County Sheriff’s Deputies.  Parent involvement is a key component to Zest Quest’s success.  Parents help by assisting their child with the Zest Quest Tracker, a daily journal which monitors their healthy habits. Zest Quest looks forward to working with you and your child. *David Hughes Mr. David Hughes is the Zest Quest Wellness Coach at Alexander Elementary.  Mr. Hughes is a 2005 graduate of Furman University.  He is in his second year as Wellness Coach at Alexander Elementary.  Mr. Hughes loves the children of Alexander Elementary and looks forward to working with the whole school in improving Alexander’s wellness.  If you would like to contact Mr. Hughes email him atdhughes@zestquest.org, or djhughes@greenville.k12.sc.us.

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The Zest Quest curriculum is based upon these habits:

1.  Eat at least 3 servings of vegetables.
2.  Eat at least 2 servings of fruits.
3.  Limit Sugary Drinks.
4.  Limit TV/video games to 60 minutes per day.
5.  Get 60 minutes of physical activity every day.
6.  Eat breakfast.
7.  Sleep 9 hours.

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1. Verbal Fluency and Conversational Skills. You can easily spot someone with lots of SI at a party or social gathering because he or she knows how to “work the room.” The highly socially intelligent person can carry on conversations with a wide variety of people, and is tactful and appropriate in what is said. Combined, these represent what are called “social expressiveness skills.”

2. Knowledge of Social Roles, Rules, and Scripts. Socially intelligent individuals learn how to play various social roles. They are also well versed in the informal rules, or “norms,” that govern social interaction. In other words, they “know how to play the game” of social interaction. As a result, they come off as socially sophisticated and wise.

3. Effective Listening Skills. Socially intelligent persons are great listeners. As a result, others come away from an interaction with an SI person feeling as if they had a good “connection” with him or her.

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