Don’t let the gray hair fool you.  With a membership of 40 million plus, AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, is a force to be reckoned with.  

Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, at the exclusive Cavallo Point Resort & Spa, a select group of very bright scholars, innovators, and Fortune 500 executives are sitting down to discuss the “future of the wellbeing movement.”  

Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”  In his new book Flourish, (Free Press: Simon & Shuster, 2011) Martin Seligman, esteemed psychologist and one of the founders of the Positive Psychology Movement, inspires us to become optimists and to get the most out of the lives we have been given.

MIT’s Technology Review Magazine named Jesse Schell one of the world’s top 100 young innovators. Early in his career he was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio where he worked on Disney theme parks and the massively popular kids game Toontown Online. Continue Reading

In an effort to combat the growing obesity problem, especially among children, Michelle Obama unveiled a new design on Thursday called MyPlate.  The new graphic replaces the government’s well known food pyramid which many critics found misleading and difficult to understand.

There is an old saying that you are what you eat.  Turns out how we eat may be every bit as important for our children.  Studies from the University of Minnesota, Harvard, and Rutgers have all shown that the family dinner is not just something that went out with scenes by Norman Rockwell.

It turns out that the impact of money on your wellbeing is subject to the law of diminishing returns, but having an intimate relationship is paramount at any income level.

Founded in 1998, CWK Network, Inc. produces the Emmy® award-winning Connect with Kids television series 10 programs each year, targeted to parents about the issues kids face every day. Continue Reading