## Raising Happy Kids Means Accepting Unhappiness Source URL:: <https://www.mother.ly/life/motherly-stories/raising-happy-kids-essay/> ### Highlights > [!quote]+ %%Updated on Sun Jul 24 2022 11:30:45 GMT-0400%% > > Happiness > [!quote]+ %%Updated on Sun Jul 24 2022 11:30:51 GMT-0400%% > > “Happiness is a good thing, but setting it up as something to be achieved tends to fail,” co-author Brock Bastian of the study and a social psychologist at the University of Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences in Australia, tells TIME. “Our work shows that it changes how people respond to their negative emotions and experiences, leading them to feel worse about these and to ruminate on them more.”