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| Does our children’s feeling of joy depend too much on material consumption? |                     

Illustrations created for an article exploring the relationship between consumerist happiness and ways of parenting.



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Do your children’s feelings of joy rely too much on material consumption?




When there’s too much stimulation, it can quite turn into emptiness.





Sometimes, parents replace their presence with gifts --
a gentle act of love, perhaps, but also one born from guilt.

Yet children need moments of stillness too -- 
a little space to be bored, because it’s often in boredom that imagination begins to bloom.

In a family, sharing a full range of emotions matters more than merely chasing joyfulness.











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