This interview with ‘happyness’ coach, Murali Sundaram, helps you turn that frown on your child’s face into a broad smile! – By Anusha Vincent from Parenting Circle Magazine.

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it

If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. (clap clap)

Are your children clapping? Or, do you sometimes look at them and wonder if God forgot to fashion a happiness bone in their little bodies, replacing it instead with a big ‘sulk button’?

There was a time when a chilled mango drink on a hot day could send children into peals of laughter, and a toy fashioned out of straw and stone could keep the smile on their faces intact for days. Those were generations of children who had mastered the art of finding happiness from within; the art of finding happiness simply by… being themselves!

But, worryingly, this age of i-Kids seems to associate happiness with material conquests. These youngsters are looking for joy in all the wrong places. As a parent, what can you do, then?

Happyness coach Murali Sundaram gives ParentCircle readers some handy tips!