How can we make our children happy at school?

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85% of schoolchildren and college students are satisfied with their life.

© RFIAnne Bernas

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

52 mins

85% of students in school and college are satisfied with their life.

But some are happy to go there every morning when others don't really feel good. 

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Several scientific studies have shown that children's satisfaction is one of the most important factors in their overall quality of life.  

With :

How do schoolchildren and college students rate their happiness at school?

Are their school performances linked to their quality of life?

How to make them happier in class? 

Cendrine Mercier

, clinical psychologist and lecturer in education and training sciences at the

University of Nantes at the INSPE

, former Institute for Teachers' Training, Le Mans site

François Durpaire

, lecturer in educational sciences at

Cergy Pontoise University

, specialist in the United States, member of

the Bonheurs laboratory

, author of

The Schools of Happiness

(Tétraèdre)

and of

World History of Happiness

(Recherches-Midi Éditions)

A QR with 

Pascal Thibaut

, RFI correspondent in Berlin (Germany) on the courses of learning happiness at school and college

And at the end of the program, 

the chronicle of psychologist Ibrahim Haïdara, Parents, children, here and elsewhere: 

 Adolescents and love

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A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahim Haïdara is a psychologist, psychology

firm Psy2A

, in Bamako (Mali) 

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► Son Senga

 - Conti Bilong

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