Live Love Laugh-- Relationships and Education

Since 1979, our purpose continues

To create and distribute products and services that assist all people in aliveness, love and laughter. Read our current goals.

What if one whole generation of children could be raised in two-parent households with families that offered love, respect, support, and a constructive environment in which they could develop responsibility, communication skills, rational thinking and self-esteem? What if this same generation of children could be raised undamaged and supported in being all that they could be with dreams and visions of their own?

You say it could never happen?

Perhaps not, but just because an "ideal" may not be possible, we needn't give up on trying for it! After all, even an airliner on autopilot is technically off-course 95% of the time, it never gives up on making corrections to pursue the perfect path.

Admittedly, we have a long way to go. According to Leon Eisenberg, M.D. of the University of Illinois:

"Few issues vex Americans more than what has happened to the role of the family in caring for children. Almost one in four of the nation's youngsters under 18 lives with only one parent, almost always the mother. If the youngster is black, the ratio rises to one in two."

"Without a dream, it can't come true."

Live Love Laugh has a dream and a vision. Two of our main projects were created with this in mind. You can continue on to read our vision, or, you can find out more about those products right now.

Book and materials to help couples, families, friends, co-workers and associates in supportive, constructive communication and bonding.
Teacher's manual and curriculum materials for raising awareness and developing relating and communication skills.

VISION

Live Love Laugh has a dream and a vision. It isn't fixed and some of the details change, however, the ultimate view remains constant. A vision of a world in which each person has sufficient love, food, shelter, health, education, freedom, mutual support, and prosperity to experience all the aliveness, love and laughter they desire.

In the meantime, here are some interim visions we'd like to see that just might be steps toward that grand vision. Perhaps we could actually see this start happening by the turn of the century.

Instead of 1 in 2 marriages leading to divorce, couples have found ways to enhance love and understanding. The divorce rate is now down to only 1 in 5 and going lower. More and more couples and families remain together in happiness and great mutual support.

Couples realize upon getting married that it takes more than the initial love to keep them together, that each year they spend time taking workshops, reading books, and practicing methods to "clear the air" and develop more togetherness, bonding and love.

Parents take parenting classes before and during the process of raising children. It is as natural and common as learning any other important life skill and we look back at the days without training and know why we had such great problems without it. The government encourages this by giving greater tax breaks to those taking classes, or if on welfare, by giving less welfare money to those unwilling to attend classes. The parenting classes includes how to raise healthy, responsible, educated and balanced human beings, the development of constructive and supportive communication skills, how to keep the family from growing beyond the size you choose, and how to foster harmonious, loving relationships with spouses and children.

The government now encourages couples to stay together. There is no longer a financial incentive for a spouse to abandon the family in order for to receive more welfare or tax benefits.

We as a people see the incredible value in raising healthy, responsible, educated and balanced children. Most people without children now donate time to Big Brother type organizations and take an active part in being involved with the youth.

We see education as an investment instead of an expense. Our schools have the finest equipment, class sizes of 15 to 20, many parent volunteers, great financial incentives to attract our finest into becoming teachers, innovative school design and architecture that inspires learning, the willingness to experiment and test educational methods to accelerate learning and to foster such joy in the process that adults continue active learning even after graduation.

We now teach as a basic in education the fourth "R" -- Relating skills. We see that we are stronger if families stay together in love, mutual support and harmony. We see that co-workers are more effective in teams with good relating skills, and we realize that it is as important to be able to work out our differences as it is to be able to calculate child support payments if all else fails. As there is more emphasis on computers and technology, there is a growing balance, interest and time devoted to human relating skills.

And, we have all developed such relating skills with one another in school, classes and workshops, that we seek out and find things we have in common rather than just focus on our differences. We respect cultural diversity yet we deeply feel and sense each other's heart beat, each other's joy, sadness, and love. We want all to win in life because we realize that as each individual reaches higher levels of success, we all do. We are all connected, we all depend on each other, and we're in this game of life together. We are all family on this mass of rock hurling through space and it's safer and a whole lot more fun if we all get along with one another.

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR MATERIALS?

Book and materials to help couples, families, friends, co-workers and associates in supportive, constructive communication and bonding.

Teacher's manual and curriculum materials for raising awareness and developing relating and communication skills.

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	Since 1979, our purpose continues To create and distribute products and services that assist all people in aliveness, love and laughter. Read our current goals.

What if one whole generation of children could be raised in two-parent households with families that offered love, respect, support, and a constructive environment in which they could develop responsibility, communication skills, rational thinking and self-esteem? What if this same generation of children could be raised undamaged and supported in being all that they could be with dreams and visions of their own? You say it could never happen?
	Perhaps not, but just because an "ideal" may not be possible, we needn't give up on trying for it! After all, even an airliner on autopilot is technically off-course 95% of the time, it never gives up on making corrections to pursue the perfect path. Admittedly, we have a long way to go. According to Leon Eisenberg, M.D. of the University of Illinois:
"Few issues vex Americans more than what has happened to the role of the family in caring for children. Almost one in four of the nation's youngsters under 18 lives with only one parent, almost always the mother. If the youngster is black, the ratio rises to one in two."

	Parents take parenting classes before and during the process of raising children. It is as natural and common as learning any other important life skill and we look back at the days without training and know why we had such great problems without it. The government encourages this by giving greater tax breaks to those taking classes, or if on welfare, by giving less welfare money to those unwilling to attend classes. The parenting classes includes how to raise healthy, responsible, educated and balanced human beings, the development of constructive and supportive communication skills, how to keep the family from growing beyond the size you choose, and how to foster harmonious, loving relationships with spouses and children.
The government now encourages couples to stay together. There is no longer a financial incentive for a spouse to abandon the family in order for to receive more welfare or tax benefits. We as a people see the incredible value in raising healthy, responsible, educated and balanced children. Most people without children now donate time to Big Brother type organizations and take an active part in being involved with the youth.
We see education as an investment instead of an expense. Our schools have the finest equipment, class sizes of 15 to 20, many parent volunteers, great financial incentives to attract our finest into becoming teachers, innovative school design and architecture that inspires learning, the willingness to experiment and test educational methods to accelerate learning and to foster such joy in the process that adults continue active learning even after graduation.
We now teach as a basic in education the fourth "R" -- Relating skills. We see that we are stronger if families stay together in love, mutual support and harmony. We see that co-workers are more effective in teams with good relating skills, and we realize that it is as important to be able to work out our differences as it is to be able to calculate child support payments if all else fails. As there is more emphasis on computers and technology, there is a growing balance, interest and time devoted to human relating skills. And, we have all developed such relating skills with one another in school, classes and workshops, that we seek out and find things we have in common rather than just focus on our differences. We respect cultural diversity yet we deeply feel and sense each other's heart beat, each other's joy, sadness, and love. We want all to win in life because we realize that as each individual reaches higher levels of success, we all do. We are all connected, we all depend on each other, and we're in this game of life together. We are all family on this mass of rock hurling through space and it's safer and a whole lot more fun if we all get along with one another.
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR MATERIALS? Book and materials to help couples, families, friends, co-workers and associates in supportive, constructive communication and bonding. Teacher's manual and curriculum materials for raising awareness and developing relating and communication skills.
Return to home page.