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Happy

Children

By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)

Who doesn’t want their children to be happy? -
The truth is that though we might not think
about it on a daily basis, parents’ main goal
for their children is that they be happy. Suc-
cess, fame, and beauty pales in comparison to
happiness when parents think about what they
want for their children. But, how do you “in-

you help your child feel something? Well, ac-
cording to groundbreaking psychologist Mikaly
Csikszentmihalyi, “Happiness is not something
that happens to people but something that
Sweet sorrow. Meaning. A chance to be a hero.
happen? Or, rather, can you help your children
make their own happiness happen?
Before we get into the details of how to help life.
your children learn how to create their own
- How can we become heroic parents? By help-
ell from his book The Childhood Roots of Adult ing our children learn how to create happiness
Happiness. We might not always agree with it, -
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parent happiness: ents can take in order to learn how to create
and sustain joy on their own.
There is a point

- The sense of being rooted,
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their parents – luckily this part of the connec-

of a community, a member of a school, and