How to Raise Happy and Successful Children: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

Kindness and gratitude are often overlooked, even though these are the qualities that research shows will make us most happy in life.

One of the biggest mistakes we make as parents is to assume personal responsibility for our children’s emotions.

When we talk about parenting, she reminds us that we can’t force a child to do something: we need to motivate them to want to do it themselves.

TRUST: We are in a crisis of trust the world over. Parents are afraid, and that makes our children afraid — to be who they are, to take risks, to stand up against injustice. Trust has to start with us. When we’re confident in the choices we make as parents, we can then trust our children to take important and necessary steps toward empowerment and

I’ve identified five fundamental values that help us all become capable, successful people. To make it easy to remember in all walks of life, I call these values “TRICK”: TRUST, RESPECT, INDEPENDENCE, COLLABORATION, AND KINDNESS