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 for parents building the emotional foundation their children will carry for life.
Everything formed before age six is still operating at 25, at 45, at 65.
What you build in these years has a timeline that outlasts everything else you will ever do as a parent.
The Please Be Happy Method distills decades of research in neuroscience, psychology and emotional development
into seven foundations that matter most in the first six years, designed for busy parents in a modern world. No parenting hacks. No pressure. No overwhelm.
Your child will feel the difference — long before they can name it: more confidence, more self-worth, more resilience.
01 / THE FOUNDATION Why the first six years shape a lifetime and what that means for how you parent right now.
02 / EMOTIONAL SAFETY How inner security is built. The ordinary moments that create it or quietly erode it.
03 / THE INNER VOICE How identity, self-worth and self-trust take shape before a child can name any of it.
04 / EMOTIONS & RESILIENCE What emotionally strong children truly need. Not protection from difficulty, but the tools to move through it.
05 / CO-REGULATION How your nervous system shapes theirs. The most powerful aspect of early parenting — explained without guilt.
06 / FUTURE-PROOF CHILDREN What children growing up today will truly need and how to build it, starting now.
07 / YOUR INNER FOUNDATION Why a parent's emotional landscape is a child's first environment and how to work with your own.
What changes for you:
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Clarity on what truly matters in the first six years and what doesn't need your energy.
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No more reacting from uncertainty. 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.
It is the right information, distilled, sequenced and delivered in a way that actually changes how you parent.
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: $197, reserved for parents who join our private waitlist before launch.
Standard price: $297
Launching soon — join the waitlist for early access.
GIVE YOUR CHILD THE ONE ADVANTAGE THAT LASTS A LIFETIME: EMOTIONAL STRENGTH.
You can’t control the future. But you can shape the child who will live in it.
The world is changing faster than ever: artificial intelligence, social media, rising uncertainty.
The real advantage is no longer what a child knows. It is how they handle life.
Please Be Happy is a science-based education experience for parents who think ahead. For families building the emotional foundation that becomes confidence, resilience and a quiet, durable sense of self. Before the window closes.
Success doesn’t start in school. It starts in the nervous system.
Please be happy
Emotionally intelligent.
Neuroscience-based.
Beautifully human.
What matters most does not begin later.
It begins now.
By the age of six, nearly 90 percent of a brain is developed!
Not the part that learns mathematics. The part that decides whether the world is safe.
In these first six years your child builds the internal system that will shape the rest of their life.
Whether they are safe. Whether they are worthy of love. Whether their emotions will overwhelm them or simply move through them.
Whether they can trust themselves. And whether the world will hold them, when things become hard. This becomes their baseline.
And here is the thing about a baseline: it doesn’t disappear. It goes underground. And from underground, it shapes everything.
Their relationships. Their confidence. Their capacity for joy and their ability to face difficulty without losing themselves.
The research in developmental neuroscience is unambiguous: the emotional foundations formed in early childhood have measurable,
lifelong effects on mental health, relationship quality, resilience and overall wellbeing well into adulthood.
You are in those years. Right now. Today.
We are already seeing what happens when this foundation is missing.
Rising anxiety. Loss of direction. Dependence on external validation. Not because people are not capable.
But because many were never given the internal structure to handle what life demands.
Children can not be protected from the future. But they can be prepared for it.
Not by controlling the outside world, but by strengthening what is within.
That is where everything begins. And this is what Please Be Happy stands for.
Happiness is not something we can create for our children. It is something they are able to experience when their inner system is strong enough.
It’s about planting what matters — while it matters most.
And that is the most powerful legacy we can leave.
A line that changed everything.
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."
Not: be the best. Not: be the smartest.
But simply: Please be happy.
At the time, I had spent fifteen years working in high-performance environments.
Where success was measured. Where pressure was constant. Where people achieved a lot and still struggled internally.
This contrast raised a different question.
Not what makes someone successful. But what allows someone to feel at ease within their own life.
Where does inner steadiness actually come from? And why do some people have it while others, regardless of how much they accomplish, seem to lack it entirely?
The research made the answer clear. It doesn’t begin in adulthood. It begins in the first years of life.
In the invisible architecture of a child’s inner world, built moment by moment, in the ordinary spaces between a parent and a child.
This is how Please Be Happy began. Not as an idea.
But as a responsibility.
Because the greatest thing we can give a child
is not control over their future. It is the ability to stay steady within it.
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, journalist and founder of Please Be Happy, based in Dubai.
She spent fifteen years as a senior executive in international media, and a decade working closely with leaders navigating the highest-pressure environments in business, politics, sport and public life. What she kept observing in those rooms, and in her own home, was the same pattern: the people who struggled most were not lacking intelligence, skill or ambition. They were missing a stable emotional foundation. One that gets built, or doesn’t, in the earliest years of a life. Not in one culture or one industry, but across continents, boardrooms and backgrounds.
That observation became a decade of applied research into developmental neuroscience, emotional intelligence, nervous system science and identity formation. Into the specific, scientifically grounded things parents can do, in the years that still matter most, to change the trajectory of a child’s inner life.
Please Be Happy is the result of that work. Built not as a theory, but as a responsibility. For her own children first. And then, for yours.
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
