Have you ever had problems in your life and don’t know how to be happy? If _______, you will find “Being a Happy Teenager” by Australian writer Andrew Matthews _______.

In his book, Matthews _______ us how to have a happy life and answer the _______ of teenagers.

There are many _______ such as parents and friends, and the book _______ we should stop being angry and learn to forgive. The book tells us of useful skills _______ how to put what you have learned into pictures of your mind to _______your memory better.

Many teenagers think _______ happiness comes from a good exam result ________ praise (赞扬) from other people. But you can ________ be happy when there are no such “good” things.

Success comes from a(n) ________ attitude (态度). If you ________ from problems, you will have success in the future.

Some school students have ________ such as being too tall or too short. But Matthews tells us that ________ comes from thinking about things in a positive (积极的)________ . If you are ________ , people notice you and you can get a ________ view (视线) at the movie; if you are short, your clothes and shoes ________ less room in your bedroom! This is Matthews’ most important ________ : you choose to be happy!

【推荐3】Like many parents, I enjoyed reading a bedtime story to my two sons each night before they went to bed. After the story was over, we would turn off the lights, and talked until they fell _________

One night after the lights were off, my 3-year-old son, Will, _________ me to tell them a story_________ by myself, not one from a book. So I _________ told him a story about the first thing that came into my _________. But to my surprise, he _________ it so much that he asked me to do that the next night.

Thus a story-telling tradition was _________ in our family. Ever since that night, they seemed not to be able to sleep without hearing one of my _________ stories. Of all the things I do for my _________ ,my storytelling is what they love most. It has created a special __________ between us. And they find that their day isn’t __________ without one of my stories, and so do I.

When I see how __________ my storytelling is in their lives, I come to realize how much our television and video-oriented (以视频为导向的) society has __________in terms of the personal connections that storytelling brings. Before the __________ of television, computers and smartphones, a family’s __________was built around storytelling. This oral (口述的) tradition was __________ from generation to generation, and many of the stories we have today originated from this tradition until someone finally __________them down.

Storytelling is used as a creative way to __________ for me. During the storytelling, I forget about the pressure of the day and enjoy the __________ time I can spend with my children. I hope that other parents can gain __________ from storytelling, too.

【推荐1】The job of raising children is a tough one. Children don’t come with an instruction manual(说明书). And each child is   _______. So parents sometimes pull their hair out in frustration(挫折),not   _______ what to do. But in raising children-as in all of life-what we do is   _______ by our culture. Naturally then, American parents teach their children basic American   _______. To Americans, the goal of parents is to help children _______ on their own two feet. From _______, each child may get his or her own room. As children grow, they get more   _______to make their own choices. _______ choose their own forms of entertainment, as well as the friends to _______ them with. When they ________ young adulthood, they choose their own jobs and marriage ________. Of course, many young adults still __________ their parents’ advice and approval for the choices they make. But once they “leave the ________ ” at around 18 to 21 years old, they want to be on their own, not “   ________ to their mother’s apron strings (围裙带). The relationship between parents and children in America is very informal. American parents try to ________ their children as individuals-not as extensions of themselves. They allow them to achieve their own   ________ . Americans praise and encourage their children to give them the   ________ to succeed. When children become adults, their relationship with their parents becomes more like a(an) __________ among equals. But __________ to popular belief, most adult Americans don’t make their parents pay for room and board when they come to________. Even as adult, they respect and honor their parents.

【推荐2】Morning is extremely important, because it is the beginning of a day. How you choose to ______ your morning can often be used to predict what kind of day you are going to have.

____ each day with love and gratitude. When you get up in the morning, think of what a great luck it is to be ______, to see, to hear, to love, to have something to look forward to. Happiness is simply the feeling of appreciating others. Realize that it’s not happiness that makes us ______, but gratefulness that makes us happy. Don’t have ______ laid on each new morning. ______ yourself from the things that you didn’t     _____ yesterday and made you down. Let yesterday go. Every morning is the start of a new day with new     ____. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.