Growing Happy Kids

Growing Happy Kids mission is to foster happiness in children around the world.  

Founded by Maureen Healy, author of 365 Perfect Things to Say to Your Kids, our organization reflects Healy’s personal mission to integrate the best of Eastern and Western thinking to cause happiness in children in modern and developing countries.

It is this holistic and unique perspective that can be found in all of Growing Happy Kids events, projects, programs and partnerships around the planet.

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  Articles by Maureen Healy
  • Raising "Media Healthy" Children
    Just yesterday, a mother called me about her daughter Delia. Delia, age 8, was voted off of her classroom lunch table. Apparently all of her "friends" had been watching reality television shows and like all kids do - begin imitating what they watched and...
    Feb 3 2010 - 12:10pm
  • Parenting through Loss
    "For some moments in life there are no words"                  David SeltzerWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory I know this to be true. And children also feel this...
    Jan 15 2010 - 10:36am
  • On the threshold
    To acknowledge and cross a new threshold is always a challenge. It demands courage and also a sense of trust in whatever is emerging. - John O' Donohue Each of us is always on a threshold of change. Especially as we usher out the old, and ring in the New...
    Dec 30 2009 - 10:39am
  • Inspiration
    How do we inspire ourselves to greatness when nothing less will do?Morgan Freeman (portraying Nelson Mandela in Invictus) Often I find it's the quality of our questions that produce outcomes. And this is a very, very good question. How do we inspire...
    Dec 14 2009 - 11:41am
  • The Heart of Gratitude
    Getting to the heart of gratitude is worthy work. So many of us can think thankful thoughts and say simple appreciative sayings but how many of us genuinely feel a deep well of gratitude daily? It is this authentic appreciation for all the good that...
    Nov 13 2009 - 10:03am
  • Positive Parents
    Earlier today over a fried green tomato sandwich (yes, I live in the South), my close colleague brought up a topic. She's been observing other parents in the neighborhood "talking trash" in front of their children. I had to think about it. As a...
    Oct 28 2009 - 6:16pm
  • Raising Happy Kids
    Childhood is an incredibly sensitive time when the seeds of happiness are planted. It is such seeds that help a child form a positive self-concept, worldview and connection to all of humanity. Internal qualities to develop that contribute to happiness...
    Oct 23 2009 - 3:05pm

Maureen's Blog

  • Raising a Confident Child

    The roots of self-confidence are born or broken in childhood. Early experiences shape our sense of self. It is often just little words that wound kids or empower their dreams. So having a heightened awareness as to the enormous power of your...

  • Authentic Parenting

    Were your parents the perfect example of what not to do? Did they use a wooden paddle? Or say, "because I said so" in response to your insatiable curiosity. Were you sent to your room repeatedly? Or told you couldn't do it? Was childhood...

  • Cultivating Other-centeredness

    Cultivating other-centeredness is central to happiness. It is the ability to think of others. Other-centeredness is in stark contrast to self-centeredness. Self-centeredness is when you are only thinking of yourself. Buddhists commonly believe...

  • Catching the Moment

    Just yesterday morning I discovered something new. It was a beautiful Zen sanctuary hidden amidst the hustle and bustle of everyday life. A colleague of mine invited me to join a short Zazen (sitting meditation) practice along with a communal...

"Selecting just the right words and saying them to your child

has the power to strengthen them, and in today's world,

every child needs to be strong from the inside out."

Maureen Healy

"Empowering Kids" 
Pure Inspiration Magazine 

 





"Guiding a child to learn how to experience calmness is extraordinary. 

It is opening a doorway to his or her emotional freedom."  

Maureen Healy
"Calming a Child's Mind" 
Tathaastu Magazine

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