• sunglasses
  • saying something to brighten someone's day
  • listening to the grownups' voices
  • snow sculpture
  • storing snowballs in the freezer
  • night visitors
  • celebrating your appearance on earth
  • a gift certificate for swimming lessons
  • cold-weather sports
  • finding a real haunted house
  • accepting yourself as I am today
  • being loved back
  • researching a subject on the Internet
  • setting up an aquarium

Things for Kids to Be Happy About is a long, random list of smiley thoughts to remind kids and teenagers that there is a lot of good in their lives. It says: enjoy the moment, look positively at the right here/right now as well as the promising experiences to come. A rambling list like this exemplifies the ever-changing, rollercoaster, kaleidoscopic changes that exist in life. Things for kids to be happy about was once a printed and illustrated celebration of all the little things that make kids happy and a workbook of happiness. You can savor it here and hope that I can get it back into print!