Maximise Your Child’s Happiness – Transformative New Book Provides Blue Print for Nurturing Confident, Resilient and Happy Children. Check out my review here:
A practical manual that will be praised by all parents who embrace the advice contained, Jennie Segar brings together her 30 years plus experience of working with children to deliver top tips on how to build confidence in our young people, show them how to navigate life when things don’t go to plan; and perhaps most importantly, how to make their own ‘happy’.
UNITED KINGDOM – Published on 1st September 2023, Maximise Your Child’s Happiness – A Concise Guide to Protecting Their Mental Health is a companion to the author’s previous book, Maximise Your Child’s Performance; and one that will resonate with all parents on a mission to equip their kids with the skillsets required to develop into happy, confident and resilient individuals.
With the 21st century throwing up a host of issues that previous generations didn’t have to contend with, this impressive and information-laden guide covers all bases as it focuses on growing confidence, navigating today’s issues (bullying, social media etc) and protecting our children’s mental wellbeing.
User friendly (and written for active engagement between parents and children), the processes and activities contained within are jargon free and possess a tone of voice that promotes a desire to be involved.
When making the decision to become a parent, there’s no official handbook that comes with the child. Maximise Your Children’s Happiness is perhaps the very next best thing available, as it gives today’s kids the best chance of understanding what a happy and confident life looks like, and how to achieve it.
Synopsis:
Based on scientific research, Maximise Your Child’s Happiness is designed to show parents concrete activities they can carry out with their children in order to help them grow into confident, resilient and happy people.
The first section of the book looks at how children can build up their confidence and resilience. An effective way to do this is by identifying the strengths children possess naturally and helping them understand and improve other strengths. Understanding their unique set of strengths enables a child to excel at certain tasks, and can be a powerful tool beyond childhood.
Some strengths, which have been shown in research to be particularly valuable – such as gratitude and forgiveness – are discussed in more detail. Further activities, which have a positive effect on children’s happiness and mental health – such as using affirmations, mindfulness and journaling – are also included in this section. By harnessing these ideas, children will end up with a greater understanding of themselves and others and be better able to see their value to the world.
Life doesn’t always go according to plan and we all experience trying times on our journey. The middle section of the book takes a look at difficult topics which can have a significant impact on children’s happiness and mental health, and explores approaches which parents might take to help children when they encounter these. Bullying, online content, sex education, addictive substances and bereavement are some of the subjects discussed.
The final section of the book contains suggestions for how children can ‘make their own happy’. Biological systems in our bodies which help make children feel happy are discussed as well as lists, actions and activities which can be used to trigger these feel-good processes when our children need a boost.
The author says:
“Every parent wants their child to be happy but it’s not always easy to know how to help children find the confidence, contentment and resilience they need in order to experience true happiness.
“When my own children were growing up, I searched for material online and in bookshops to help me navigate my way through the seas of parenthood, and I couldn’t find a source with a comprehensive set of proven suggestions and techniques to help my children find happiness. That is why I wrote this book.
“My sincere wish is that the information contained in these pages gives parents, just like me, ways in which they can help their children grow into confident, secure, happy people.”
Independently published on 1st September 2023, Maximise Your Child’s Happiness is available to pre-order in paperback (ISBN No: 979-8858365044) priced £8.99 and Kindle format (£0.99) on Amazon at and https://tinyurl.com/3t6a4x8z
About the author: by Jennie Segar (Author)
Jennie feels privileged to have worked with hundreds of children for three decades, employed as a primary, secondary and peripatetic teacher in schools and as a mum, tutor, nanny and governess in home environments. Having been lucky enough to travel all over the world, she has gained valuable insight into many different cultures and parenting techniques along the way. Qualified to teach both arts and sciences, she has been involved most recently in preparing students for the competitive system of private school entry in and around London. Based on a lifetime of experience with children,
Jennie brings together a comprehensive set of techniques, proven by scientific research to work, to help parents Maximise their Child’s Happiness. As a parent, Jennie struggled to find a book that included proven methods she could employ to help build her own children’s strengths, improve their resilience in tough times, and boost their happiness. This is the reason she wrote Maximise your Child’s Happiness. If, like her, you want your children to grow up with confidence in themselves, an understanding of how special they are and a smile on their faces, then this is the book for you.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
