Picture it: The kids are in the back seat and bickering loudly as you navigate your way through the afternoon traffic jam near the school. Finally, at the end of your rope, you bellow, “Stop yelling and be nice to each other!”Looking in the rear view mirror, you can see their startled faces. Whoops!?that didn’t go well. Despite your good intentions, the atmosphere in the car is anything but loving.Sometimes in the rush of everyday demands and routines, we forget that our children learn more from who we are than from anything else. Which is why if you want your kids to be loving, it’s doubly important as a parent to learn to experience more love yourself. Besides the increased patience, empathy, and appreciation you’ll feel interacting with your kids, research suggests that you’ll be instilling those traits in them by example.A groundbreaking study, conducted by Pearl and maqui berry weight loss Samuel Oliner, showed that children raised by compassionate parents tend to display more compassion and altruism themselves. The Oliners interviewed Germans who had helped rescue Jews from the Nazis during World War II, and they found that the strongest predictor of this compassionate and altruistic behavior was the person’s experience of growing up in a family that prized and practiced those qualities. There’s no better gift you can give your child than to be a model of unconditional love.So how do you do it? Is it possible to experience unconditional love all of the time?even in the face of challenges?That’s the question I set out to answer in my latest book, Love for No Reason. As part of my research, I interviewed experts on love: more than 150 people including scientists, psychologists, spiritual teachers, and people whose lives are rich in the qualities of the heart.