Did I get your attention? That's right, my kids cannot be happy in speech! They can be thrilled, excited, delighted, etc, anything but happy! After working on emotional inferencing one day I realized I kept hearing the same words: happy, mad, and sad. " She won the lottery. How do you think she feels? " My student's standard response, " Happy. " Ok, I don't know about you but I would be ecstatic, thrilled, and doing back flips! A lot more than just 'happy'. So, I took drastic measures... I banned happy! I also banned mad and sad while I