Private Advisory & Corporate Access
For parents who prefer an even more discreet and personal setting: Please Be Happy works with a select number of families each season — privately, intentionally, and with long-term impact in mind.
The Please Be Happy method is also available for organizations that wish to support their employees in the first six years of family life — through corporate access, keynotes, or executive briefings
Please Be Happy
Grounded in science. Designed for the first six years. Built to last a lifetime.
The Parenting Journey your children
will thank you for.
The Please Be Happy method — Audio Edition for Parents
A premium, science-based audio experience that helps you shape your child’s emotional future —
in the simplest and most meaningful way.
The Please Be Happy Method distills decades of research in neuroscience, psychology and emotional development
into five foundations that matter most in the first six years — the time that cannot be repeated. No parenting hacks. No pressure.
Just the essential clarity that truly shifts the emotional future of your family.
Your child will feel the difference — long before they can name it: more safety, more trust, more joy.
The five foundations that truly shape a child's emotional future — and the method that shows you exactly how to work with them:
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Safety How to create the inner security that becomes your child’s foundation for trust and emotional stability.
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Emotions & Inner Strength How to nurture the confidence, courage and resilience that grow in everyday moments.
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Co-Regulation & Emotional Intelligence How your presence becomes their emotional blueprint — and how to use that influence wisely.
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Core Needs & Connection How to meet the essential needs that lead to cooperation, emotional security and a strong sense of self-worth.
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Identity, Values & Vision How to shape the patterns, principles and self-understanding your child will carry for life.
What this means for you:
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Clarity on what truly matters in the first six years — without overwhelm.
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More ease in daily life: less conflict, more connection.
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Confidence that your child grows up with trust, resilience, and joy.
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Peace of mind that you’re giving them the one advantage that lasts a lifetime.
The Promise: Not more tasks. Just quiet knowledge that makes everything easier.
Please Be Happy is the most meaningful investment in your child’s future — and in your own inner peace.
Audio Edition — Format & Access
7 audio chapters · each 10–15 minutes · beautifully easy to integrate into daily life
calm · science-based · with impact that lasts far beyond the early years
Early access price: $149 — reserved for parents who join our private waitlist before launch.
Standard price: $249
The science-based parenting method that gives your child emotional strength, self-worth and resilience — in just 10–15 minutes a day.
Launching soon — join the waitlist for early access.
GIVE YOUR CHILD THE ONE ADVANTAGE THAT LASTS A LIFETIME: EMOTIONAL STRENGTH.
Today’s world is changing fast — with AI, social media, and rising uncertainty. Because of that, what helps children thrive isn’t more knowledge, but a strong emotional foundation.
Please Be Happy is a pioneering, science-based education brand — created for conscious parents who want to raise confident, resilient and deeply happy children.
Success doesn’t start in school.
It starts in the nervous system.
Please Be Happy
Emotional intelligence for future leaders & their families
Please be happy
Emotionally intelligent.
Neuroscience-based.
Beautifully human.
Building the Emotional Blueprint for a Lifetime
The early years of a child are the foundation for everything that follows.
By age six, nearly 90% of the brain is already developed. During this critical window, they don’t just grow physically. They begin to learn how to handle stress, emotions, setbacks, and relationships. It’s when the core architecture for emotional intelligence, resilience, confidence, and mental health is built.
But children don’t learn from what we say. They learn from who we are.
They absorb how we feel, how we respond, how we connect.
Secure attachment begins with co-regulation. When your calm helps your child’s nervous system settle.
That’s how emotional resilience is wired into your child's brain.
These early years quietly shape the blueprint they grow into. The way change, stress, or connection is lived becomes their story of childhood.
When children grow up in a steadier atmosphere, their own inner world follows.
Connection flows more easily.
Everyday life feels easier.
And parenting begins to feel less like constant struggle — and more like shaping an unbreakable bond.
Please Be Happy helps you build exactly that — through clarity, calm, and science-based tools that truly last.
To break the cycle gently. To become the parent we once needed.
Because happy parents raise happy children.
It’s about planting what matters — while it matters most.
And that is the most powerful legacy we can leave.
Where it all began — a moment, a song, and a promise.
When I was pregnant with my first child, there was one song I couldn’t stop listening to: “Musketiere” (eng: "Musketeers") by Mark Forster — a love letter to his unborn baby. One line stayed with me more than any other:
"Please Be happy."
That simple sentence became my deepest wish — and the beginning of my journey.
Like many new parents, I read the books, followed the advice, and tried to “get it right.”
But what no one really tells you:
True happiness isn’t something we can give, buy or organise for our children.
It’s something we have to grow within ourselves.
The real path wasn’t about learning how to raise a child — but about becoming the kind of person I wanted my child to grow beside.
My background in emotional intelligence, leadership, and psychology gave me a unique perspective. But becoming a mother gave all of it deeper purpose. I began to see how an understanding of emotions, needs, and human connection could transform everyday family life — and how that inner clarity brought peace not only with my children, but also into my marriage.
Not because the struggles disappeared — but because something stronger took root: Real connection.
And that’s why I created Please Be Happy — to build the emotional foundation in the earliest years, before life ever tests it.
Be the kind of parent you once needed — and every child deserves
Where it all began — a moment, a song, and a promise.
When I was pregnant with my first child, there was one song I couldn’t stop listening to: “Musketiere” (eng: "Musketeers")by Mark Forster — a love letter to his unborn baby. One line stayed with me more than any other:
"Please be happy."
That simple sentence became my deepest wish — and the beginning of my journey.
Like many new parents, I read the books, followed the advice, and tried to “get it right.”
But what no one really tells you:
True happiness isn’t something we can give, buy or organise for our children.
It’s something we have to grow within ourselves.
The real work wasn’t about learning how to raise a child — but about becoming the kind of person I wanted my child to grow beside.
As an executive coach, I already had all the powerful tools: mindset work, emotional intelligence, leadership, self-awareness. But becoming a mother gave all of it deeper purpose. I began to see how my understanding of emotions, needs, and psychology helped me truly connect with my children — and how that inner clarity brought more peace into our family, including the relationship with my husband.
Not because the struggles disappeared — but because something stronger took root:
Real connection.
And that’s why I created Please be happy as an invitation to strengthen ourselves, so our children can grow strong too.
At Please be happy we don't wait for problems to arise, we help to build the emotional foundation before it's ever shaken.
To become the kind of parent we once needed — and the one our children will always remember.
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About the founder
Mareile Menninger is a German Entrepreneur and founder of Please Be Happy, based in Dubai.
With more than 15 years as a senior executive in international media — and a decade of experience advising leaders across business, politics, media, and elite sports — she bridges real-world leadership with scientific and psychological insight.
A two-time founder and certified specialist in emotional intelligence, she created the Please be Happy Method: a science-based framework designed for discerning families who want to give their children the strongest emotional foundation for life.
As a mother of two, her work is both research-driven and deeply personal. Mareile has developed and refined her method with leaders and families across Europe and the Middle East, always with the same focus: clarity, resilience, and long-term impact.
Education & Credentials
M.A. in Media Studies · Certified Executive & Family Advisor · Specialist in Developmental Neuroscience, Self-Leadership & Emotional Resilience · 15+ years of leadership experience in international environments · 10+ years of applied research and development in psychology and family dynamics · Certified in Emotional Intelligence, Vision Work & Parent-Child Psychology · Accredited according to internationally recognized standards
