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How can we help children develop gratitude?
If you worry and you can’t sleep, just count your blessings instead of sheep and you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings.

– Count your Blessings, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, 1942

It’s true. People who think about what they are grateful for do sleep better at night. Psychologists have done research on gratefulness and found that it increases people’s health, sense of well-being and their ability to get more and better sleep at night. One study from a leading researcher on gratitude at the University of California, Davis found that thankfulness can prevent a second heart attack in patients that have already… Read full article.