Raising Happiness is a book about ways to raise happy children. The author tells us different steps for making ourselves better parents and in that way helping our children. She also gives techniques to use on your children to help them express themselves in a way that keeps them from getting frustrated and in that way keeps them from getting upset and destructive.
This book gave me some insight into helping children but since I have older children I don’t think a lot of the practices she recommends would work. I just can see my older children wanting to sit down and meditate as a family. If I had read this book when my children were infants I might have been able to use more of the practices on them. It did however give me some ideas on how to try and communicate with my children so that they will open up more and not feel pressured to tell me about their life and what is going on in it.
I did like the chapter on picking out daycares which I think a lot of us could always use more help with. If we all stick together and discuss what we want and need out of day care and then what we should watch out for then our children would be in better hands and we would not be as worried about them and be able to go about our day a little more relaxed.
The author doesn’t pretend to be the one with all the answers, she let you know that most of the things she learned by doing research and trial and error. She admits to many mistakes in her own life which makes her more real to me and what she says more interesting.
If you have very young children I think this is a book you should read and try and apply some if not all of what she says. For the older children I think parts of this book might be helpful but as stated above I don’t think teenagers are going to participate in some of the activities.
This book gave me some insight into helping children but since I have older children I don’t think a lot of the practices she recommends would work. I just can see my older children wanting to sit down and meditate as a family. If I had read this book when my children were infants I might have been able to use more of the practices on them. It did however give me some ideas on how to try and communicate with my children so that they will open up more and not feel pressured to tell me about their life and what is going on in it.
I did like the chapter on picking out daycares which I think a lot of us could always use more help with. If we all stick together and discuss what we want and need out of day care and then what we should watch out for then our children would be in better hands and we would not be as worried about them and be able to go about our day a little more relaxed.
The author doesn’t pretend to be the one with all the answers, she let you know that most of the things she learned by doing research and trial and error. She admits to many mistakes in her own life which makes her more real to me and what she says more interesting.
If you have very young children I think this is a book you should read and try and apply some if not all of what she says. For the older children I think parts of this book might be helpful but as stated above I don’t think teenagers are going to participate in some of the activities.
Submitted by Alice Fiorello
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