…if we are not happy ourselves, how can we possibly teach them how to be
happy? Yet isn’t that is what we are trying to do - parents, friends,
religions, politicians - everybody giving advice - about how to achieve
-what they have not achieved themselves?

What we could tell them is not to listen to us, or do whatever we are
doing - because we are proving, moment to moment, that what we are doing
does not bring happiness.

If a child asks you a question - how about taking some time before
answering, and only give an answer if you absolutely know that the answer
you are about to give is absolutely your unquestioning truth.
You absolutely know that what we are about to say to them is The Truth.

If you did that you could not answer them - because, there almost
certainly isn’t an absolute truth - about anything.
What you could give to them is where you have got to in your quest, how
you got there, and support them doing their own investigation.

Suggestions for a few useful things we can do for our young children:
Help them not to damage themselves, or anyone else;
Reserve some exclusive time for them each day;
Listen to them;
Treat them with respect.
(Maybe even more respect than we give ourselves!)
Be honest with them.

The younger they are the less important are the words, and more important
is the vibrational frequency of our how we behave.

Unless blissfully happy, even Child Psychologists are not equipped to give
a child advice on how to be happy. All you have to share is your
experience of what does not work, and suggestions of how not to damage
themselves physically.

And not to take anything too seriously...