Happiness

A major thing that determines personal happiness is the relationship one has with others. Other indicators or happiness are:
-altruistic acts
-being grateful generates happiness in short-term
-sharing experiences with others
-being forgiving to others


Money  increases happiness only when it helps people out of poverty until $50,000 per year of income. After basic needs are satisfied, people generally need lots of close friends and relatives to be happy. It is beneficial to teach children about socializing, making friends, and sharing thoughts. For being socially connected the following two are important: emotional control and empathy.

People tend to like others who are nice, thoughtful, kind, outward, kind, focused, accommodating, forgiving, having deeper friendship and run away from folks who are moody, impulsive, rude, self-centered, rigid, and vindictive.


Children are born with temperament (to be taken with a healthy combination of doubtfulness)
It was Jerome Kagan who discovered that babies come to this world with inborn temperament. From a research's perspective temperament and personality are not the same. Many researchers believe that temperament provides an emotional and behavioral building blocks upon which personalities are constructed.  If parents play a role of being loving, caring and understanding all children grow up just fine.

There are atleast three genes that have been identified that result in children doing fine in their lives even though they have a disappointing household. The presence of "slow MAOA" gene results in the lessening of the pain that can result from a trauma. The gene "DRD4-7" guards against insecurity. The gene "long 5-HTT helps people/children in resistance against stress.