Dr. Martin Seligman, author of The Optimistic Child and the father of Positive Psychology reminds us that it’s not the positive or negative events in a child’s life that determine their happiness or unhappiness, but rather how they explain these events to themselves. Seligman describes this as an “explanatory style”.
The child who sees negative events as temporary setbacks and isolated to particular circumstances has an optimistic explanatory style. He believes that negative events can be overc