Private Advisory & Corporate Access
For parents who prefer an even more discreet and personal setting: Please be happy works with a select number of families each season — privately, intentionally, and with long-term impact in mind.
The Please be happy method is also available for organizations that wish to support their employees in the first six years of family life — through corporate access, keynotes, or executive briefings
Please be happy
Grounded in science. Designed for the first six years. Built to last a lifetime.
The Parenting Journey your children
will thank you for.
The Please be happy method — Digital Edition for Parents
A premium, knowledge experience to shape the emotional future of your family — and the most beautiful proof of love you can give your child.
The Please be happy method distills decades of research in neuroscience, psychology, and emotional intelligence into one clear journey: nine foundations that shape a child's emotional future. Instead of endless advice, you gain clarity on what truly matters in the first six years – the time that cannot be repeated.
Your child will feel the difference — long before they can name it: more safety, more trust, more joy.
What you’ll explore:
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How the atmosphere around a child silently shapes their sense of safety.
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Why language becomes identity – and how words echo for a lifetime.
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The invisible power of emotions and the body in building resilience.
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Core needs, play, and family culture as the real engines of self-worth.
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How vision and leadership in parenting plant what will last for decades.
These foundations define the emotional blueprint a child carries for life.
What this means for you:
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Clarity on what truly matters in the first six years — without overwhelm.
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More ease in daily life: less conflict, more connection.
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Confidence that your child grows up with trust, resilience, and joy.
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peace of mind that you’re giving them the one advantage that lasts a lifetime.
The Promise: Not more tasks. Not more pressure.
Just the essential knowledge every parent needs – to give their child roots of trust and wings of resilience.
Please be happy is the most meaningful investment in your child’s future — and in your own inner peace.
Digital Edition — Format & Access
9 video chapters · each 15-20 minutes
calm · science-based · with impact that lasts far beyond the early years
Early access price: $690 — reserved for parents who join our private waitlist before launch.
Standard price: $840 — lifetime access to the full digital edition.
The science-based parenting method that gives your child emotional strength, self-worth and resilience — in just nine chapters.
Launching soon — join the waitlist for early access.
GIVE YOUR CHILD THE ONE ADVANTAGE THAT LASTS A LIFETIME: EMOTIONAL STRENGTH.
Today’s world is changing fast — with AI, social media, and rising uncertainty. Because of that, what helps children thrive isn’t more knowledge, but a strong emotional foundation.
Please be happy is a pioneering, science-based emotional intelligence advisory — created for conscious parents who want to raise confident, resilient and deeply happy children.
Success doesn’t start in school.
It starts in the nervous system.
Please be happy
Emotional intelligence for future leaders & their families
Please be happy
Emotionally intelligent.
Neuroscience-based.
Beautifully human.
Building the Emotional Blueprint for a Lifetime
The early years of a child are the foundation for everything that follows.
By age six, nearly 90% of the brain is already developed. During this critical window, they don’t just grow physically — they begin to learn how to handle stress, emotions, setbacks, and relationships. It’s when the core architecture for emotional intelligence, resilience, confidence, and mental health is built.
But children don’t learn from what we say. They learn from who we are.
They absorb how we feel, how we respond, how we connect.
Secure attachment begins with co-regulation — when your calm helps your child’s nervous system settle.
That’s how emotional resilience is wired into your child's brain.
These early years quietly shape the blueprint they grow into — the way change, stress, or connection is lived becomes their story of childhood.
When children grow up in a steadier atmosphere, their own inner world follows.
Connection flows more easily.
Everyday life feels easier.
And parenting begins to feel less like constant struggle — and more like shaping an unbreakable bond.
Please be happy helps you build exactly that — through clarity, calm, and science-based tools that truly lasts.
Because happy parents raise happy children.
It’s about planting what matters — while it matters most.
And that is the most powerful legacy we can leave.
Where it all began — a moment, a song, and a promise.
When I was pregnant with my first child, there was one song I couldn’t stop listening to: “Musketiere” (eng: "Musketeers") by Mark Forster — a love letter to his unborn baby. One line stayed with me more than any other:
"Please be happy."
That simple sentence became my deepest wish — and the beginning of my journey.
Like many new parents, I read the books, followed the advice, and tried to “get it right.”
But what no one really tells you:
True happiness isn’t something we can give, buy or organise for our children.
It’s something we have to grow within ourselves.
The real path wasn’t about learning how to raise a child — but about becoming the kind of person I wanted my child to grow beside.
My background in emotional intelligence, leadership, and psychology gave me a unique perspectives. But becoming a mother gave all of it deeper purpose. I began to see how an understanding of emotions, needs, and human connection could transform everyday family life — and how that inner clarity brought peace not only with my children, but also into my marriage.
Not because the struggles disappeared — but because something stronger took root: Real connection.
And that’s why I created Please be happy — to build the emotional foundation in the earliest years, before life ever tests it. To be the parent every child deserves.
Where it all began — a moment, a song, and a promise.
When I was pregnant with my first child, there was one song I couldn’t stop listening to: “Musketiere” (eng: "Musketeers")by Mark Forster — a love letter to his unborn baby. One line stayed with me more than any other:
"Please be happy."
That simple sentence became my deepest wish — and the beginning of my journey.
Like many new parents, I read the books, followed the advice, and tried to “get it right.”
But what no one really tells you:
True happiness isn’t something we can give, buy or organise for our children.
It’s something we have to grow within ourselves.
The real work wasn’t about learning how to raise a child — but about becoming the kind of person I wanted my child to grow beside.
As an executive coach, I already had all the powerful tools: mindset work, emotional intelligence, leadership, self-awareness. But becoming a mother gave all of it deeper purpose. I began to see how my understanding of emotions, needs, and psychology helped me truly connect with my children — and how that inner clarity brought more peace into our family, including the relationship with my husband.
Not because the struggles disappeared — but because something stronger took root:
Real connection.
And that’s why I created Please be happy as an invitation to strengthen ourselves, so our children can grow strong too.
At Please be happy we don't wait for problems to arise, we help to build the emotional foundation before it's ever shaken.
To become the kind of parent we once needed — and the one our children will always remember.
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About the founder
Mareile Menninger is a German Entrepreneur and founder of Please be happy, based in Dubai.
With more than 15 years as a senior executive in international media — and a decade of experience advising leaders across business, politics, media, and elite sports — she bridges real-world leadership with scientific and psychological insight.
A two-time founder and certified specialist in emotional intelligence, she created the Please be Happy Method: a science-based framework designed for discerning families who want to give their children the strongest emotional foundation for life.
As a mother of two, her work is both research-driven and deeply personal. Mareile has developed and refined her method with leaders and families across Europe and the Middle East, always with the same focus: clarity, resilience, and long-term impact.
Education & Credentials
M.A. in Media Studies · Certified Executive & Family Advisor · Specialist in Developmental Neuroscience, Self-Leadership & Emotional Resilience · 15+ years of leadership experience in international environments · 10+ years of applied research and development in psychology and family dynamics · Certified in Emotional Intelligence, Vision Work & Parent-Child Psychology · Accredited according to internationally recognized standards
