Yo, today's QLD is, if you want to be happier, it has to be a choice.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the Quaradade Show. I'm your hope, Sean Crox and Sean Crox and

Taccom. We've got Connie Podesta on the show today. She's going to give us

another reminder that happiness is a personal choice. And you can choose to

pursue happiness every single day. Plus, she's going to share one thing you can do

to raise happy kids. Connie Podesta is coming up.

So, two years ago, I interviewed about 500 parents and I say, what do you want for

your kids? I only got one answer. They want their kids to be what? Happy.

Happy more than respectful. Happy more than hard working. Happy more than

compassionate. As your therapist today, can I tell you this? I've learned in 30

years of doing family counseling. You cannot make another human being happy.

But what you can do, you can do two things if you want your kids to be happy.

Number one, you have to be happy. Our children don't learn happy and they really

don't learn values. They witness these things, don't they? We can't teach them.

They witness them. They watch them. They learn their values. They figure out

how to be happy. They learn what's right and wrong from being in the constant

presence of people who live those values, who live that happiness, who model

those things. So, we can't make our kids happy. We can't teach them how to be

happy. But number one, you need to be happy. You know, sometimes I would have

family counseling and the parents would go and I would just be talking to the

kids and I would say to the kids, this was always one of my number one questions

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