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Chapter 4 Article Write Up This article talks about how the holidays, specifically Christmas, is a time of year to be happy and joyful. The Holidays are becoming too much about materialism and how such busyness leads to stress anxiety sleep deprivation. She goes into much detail about how the cultural message around Christmas time is typically materialistic. People don’t understand that material things don’t bring us complete happiness and can lead to unhappiness. Materialistic people tend to upset with their lives, have low self esteem, find less meaning of life, and be less concerned about the welfare for others. They also don’t have the greatest family lives, have little enjoyment, and high chances of depression. These kind of people need to make changes in their lives to help better the emotions in the December holidays. People need to learn to be grateful and express our gratitude to others. It will make us happier in the end by not caring about daily hassles. It will also leave little room to think about negative things and focus most of our brain on positive things. If people follow this type of formality, then we will have happier holidays and live more positive lives. Research shows that grateful perception can have a positive effect of kid’s lives. When people get into the habit of being grateful and when we express concern for others, we become more grateful people in general. Grateful children and teens tend to be better off. They tend to have higher grades, more satisfied with their lives, and feel they are a significant part of their society. They show few signs of depression. Grateful kids are more motivated to have concern for others, because they feel more connected with people in general. Wide