Children are happy because:

1) They're not self conscious
2) They lack a sense of time pressure
3) They've no goals.

The bottom line is they are living from moment to moment, and the mind is not there to interfere in their bliss.

Children are happy because:

1) They're not self conscious.

2) They lack a sense of time pressure.

3) They've no goals.

The bottom line is they are living from moment to moment, and the mind is not there to interfere in their bliss.

A happy childhood means - or ought to mean - that one's first experience of the world is a true experience - not yet comprehensive, of course, yet comprehending the prime reality, so that it becomes an experience of an essential order which thenceforward will serve as a basis of comparison, in whose light all future falsification, all disorder, will be recognised as wrong and invalid. A happy childhood means above all a loved child. Because Thérèse was a happy child, her beginnings could contain perfection. Because she was a loved child, she received from the beginning the knowledge that others must struggle towards so consciously, with such difficulty, by painfully strenuous detours: the simple truth that to so many of us seems the most incredible and amazing lesson of religion: that we can be loved without having deserved it: that grace comes first..It is bliss simply to be someone's child, a child of a father, of a mother, living, moving and having its being in a love which is unmerited, unmeritable , anticipatory, unconditional and immutable. On this basic mystery and reality Thérèse's childhood was built. This was the source of her subsequent doctrine of the way of spiritual childhood.

The experience of raising young children - when they’re happy, you’re happy.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Young children are at their most mesmerizing when they aren’t self-conscious at all.

Be happy without picking flaws.

To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.