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Helping Children Become
Happy Adults
By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
Quick. What do you want for your chil- Before we get into the details of how to
dren? help your children learn how to create
Do you want them to be successful? Edward Hallowell from his new book The
Do you want them to be famous? Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness. We
might not always agree with it, but here
is what Dr. Hallowell has to say about
You might want all of those above suc- parent happiness:
cesses, but in reality, the main thing that
most parents want for their children
Bulletin
comes down to one word: happiness. books miss: children do more for us than
Success, fame, and beauty pales in com- we do for them. The most important ad-
parison to happiness when parents think
about what they want for their children. this: Enjoy your children. Learn from your
children, listen to what they have to say,
easy to understand how to make your play with them when you can, let them
-
help your child feel something? Well, ac-
cording to groundbreaking psychologist were born, and let those parts of you en-
Mikaly Csikszentmihalyi, “Happiness is
not something that happens to people spiritual life, every part of your life that
there is.
How can you make that happen? Or,
rather, can you help your children make
their own happiness happen? my children do more for me that I do
