Principle 1

Positive emotions broaden and build (Fredrickson, 1998, 2001) cognitive, social, emotional and physical resources and capitalize them for children to rely on them later in life.

Principle 2

Increasing positive emotions in children can initiate an upward spiral of positive emotions according to the Broaden and Build theory of Positive Emotions (Fredrickson, 1998, 2001).

Principle 3

The positive traits children show are equally important to the negative ones (Seligman, 2002) .