Relationships

Grandparents’ Love for Their Grandchild Built a Life-Size Totoro

Two 70-year-old grandparents in Takaharu, a town in Kyushu, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, decided to recreate the well-loved character Totoro at their local bus stop to surprise their granddaughter. Totoro is from the iconic 1988 animated fantasy film by Hayao Miyazaki. Grandparents will go to any lengths to ensure their grandkids are happy and safe. Our ...

Armin Auctor

Totoro bus stop figure..

There’s a Better Way to Parenting: Less Yelling and Less Praise

Raising children the proper way has been an eternal dilemma for parents. Michaeleen Doucleff attempts to clear up some of the myths associated with parenting. The noted NPR journalist points out the mistakes committed by the majority of parents and how they can evade the pitfalls in her well-researched book entitled Hunt, Gather, Parent: What ...

Raven Montmorency

A young boy and girl.

The Role of Information Cascades in Driving Public Opinion

As humans connect at increasing rates, it becomes all too common to influence each other’s behavior and decision-making through information cascades, which create a multitude of crowd behaviors that may offer us a better understanding of human relationships through opinion dynamics. In many social and biological systems, individuals rely on the observation of others to ...

Sofia Roma

Information cascades.

Important Social Skills Essential for Early Childhood Development

 If children can do well developing key social skills in their early years, they may be more prone to becoming successful in the future as adults. Every parent wants their children to grow up to be successful. So what are the special keys needed to help early childhood development so that children can become successful ...

Emma Lu

Children working together.

Taking a Chance on Valentine’s Day

This is a coronavirus Valentine’s Day story. Jenny had put yellow curtains up and some colorful pillows on her bed to make her cheap and slightly run-down room feel more like home. In September 2019, a new job in New York City required her to move. Having rented a room in a shared house, she ...

Trisha Haddock

A marquee sign spelling "love" in red letters with white lightbulbs.

Gratitude and Obligation: How Couples Stayed Together for Life in Ancient Times

Married life has many kinds of ups and downs for a couple, as well as many joys and challenges. It is certainly not always a bed of roses. Couples have stayed together since ancient times, through the thick and thin. Love and affection for each other, arranged marriages, shotgun marriages, gratitude and sometimes obligation, and ...

Emma Lu

Married life has many kinds of ups and downs for a couple.

The 8 Graces of Life

Having a grateful heart, we have to be aware of the eight tremendous graces in life and return the blessings when the time comes. 8 graces to be grateful for 1. The grace of nature Nature bears us. We live, we take, and we grow in it. That is why ancient people respected nature. They ...

Nspirement Staff

A forest path.