Workbook
What Makes Your Child Happy
A Guide to Understanding What Lights Up Your Child
You know what you want them to enjoy. This asks what they enjoy.
For the parent who suspects their child's real sources of joy are different from the ones on the schedule — and wants to document what this child lights up for before another year passes.
The Name It First Experience
Children perform enthusiasm for the things adults want them to love. They also dim the things that light them up if no one notices. This workbook is a structured observation process for the parent who wants to know what their child experiences as genuine joy. You will separate your projections from their reality. What you produce is Your Child's Happiness Agreement: a signed record of what this child lights up for.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What does your child light up about — the specific activities, topics, or moments when you can see them fully alive in what they are doing?
- What makes your child happy that you have been underestimating or not making enough space for?
- What would The Child Happiness Record say — clearly and from observation — about what this specific child actually needs to thrive?
Research basis
Thomas and Chess on temperament theory and individual differences in child response patterns / Deci and Ryan on self-determination theory and intrinsic motivation / Powell, Cooper, Hoffman, and Marvin on Circle of Security and the parent as secure base for exploration
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