It’s a mystery that hangs around many parents: how to raise a happy and fulfilled child? A psychologist found the method ideal but yet unpopular.
There are sometimes educational methods that do not seem obvious, in any case, they don’t jump out at you and yet they can be really effective. A few weeks ago, an expert revealed the one important rule for raising successful children. It was not necessarily obvious and yet it is a central point in the education of children: we have to be optimistic. And given the current context, it is true that we sometimes forget to be optimistic when it is as beneficial for you as it is for your child!
Now to raise happy children, know that there is also an effective method. It was a psychologist, Tovah Klein, who revealed it in a CNBC Make It article and she confesses: this method is rather unpopular. Before discovering what it consists of, don’t forget that being happy is not necessarily constant, that there are ups and downs, the whole thing being to know how to find the path to happiness.
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An unpopular and yet very effective method
To be fully happy and fulfilled, Tovah Klein explains that you must first accept all the feelings of children, even those that seem negative to you. The child has the right to be unhappy and to express it and he must understand it. Your role as parents is therefore to help him express how he feels when he is sad or angry, for example. It’s a temporary state, just like being happy, and you have to try to receive it with a lot of benevolence so that the child does not then repress his negative emotions. Repressing your emotions has never been beneficial for anyone, quite the contrary. It’s not the easiest part of education, but it shouldn’t be overlooked. It is not innate to understand our emotions or our feelings, so for that too you become guides for your children.
It’s a bit like for us, as adults, it’s also important to accept our misfortune, to receive it without judgement. Accepting our feelings is a key to our well-being, our inner peace but it is also and above all an apprenticeship…