Please Be Happy
The First Six Years
What your child needs now for a world we can’t predict.
Free · Read in one sitting
By age six, your child’s brain has reached roughly ninety percent of its adult size. But some of the most important things being built are the ones we cannot see.
This is a short read on what they are, where they begin, and why they matter long after childhood.
A small read about something that matters a lot.
From the pages
The whole loud day collapses into one quiet sentence. Please. Be happy. Whether that wish comes true is not decided later. It is being decided now.
The First Six Years · Page one
What you will read
Four short chapters.
- 01
The window itself: why the years before six lay the architecture everything else runs on, and what the research actually says, without the myths.
- 02
The questions your child is answering right now, without words, in the smallest moments of an ordinary day. Am I safe? Am I seen? Am I enough?
- 03
What fifteen years beside outwardly successful people taught me about what was missing, and when it was built.
- 04
The seven foundations, named. And the quiet mechanism all seven of them are built with, which asks far less of you than you fear.
Written by
I am Mareile, a mother of two. I spent fifteen years inside high performance environments, in media, business and public life, watching extraordinary people achieve everything they were supposed to want and still feel unsteady inside their own lives.The First Six Years is where the answer to that begins.
Mareile Menninger · Founder, Please Be Happy
A short read. For the years that decide the most.
You will not get a checklist. You will get the understanding that changes how you read everything else.
Free. Instant. Made for one quiet evening.