Halley points my post over…

Halley points my post over on the Worthwhile blog.  She highlights the part of the Happiness article about the meaningfull life and specifically the difference between pleasurable activity and philanthropic activity.  Makes me think about the things I do as a double parent for my girls.  Some of the things that give me the most gratification are those things I do with or “for” my daughters.  Is the time parents spend with their children somehow very much like the philanthropic activities of kindness and giving?  Is that one of those things that parents get from their children that makes life so fufilling, and one of the things that we find so hard to explain to someone who doesn’t have children?