For Valentine’s Day, I hid a box of chocolate under my kids sandwich’s in their lunch box. I left a bag of Lindt chocolates and a card for each of them for when they got home from school. I even sent my daughter to school with a bag of candy bracelets to give to her friends at lunch.
Do you think I got a thank you from either of them? No! No “thank you mom” call after school. I had to ask did you get your candy and card? I decided I am going home and making each of them write me a paragraph on what Gratitude is.
We need to practice gratitude, reminding ourselves it really is the little things in life that are important. According to Wikipedia gratitude is a feeling, emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.
I think this generation of parents needs to force feed being grateful on our kids. Instead I hear excuses on bad behavior, I’m even guilty of it. Tonight I will make sure that my kids write what being grateful means or what having Gratitude means and if I am not happy with their answer I will have them copy word for word the definition from Wikipedia.
I watched a man on YouTube publicly punish is daughter for going on her FaceBook page complaining about her parents. She was warned not to but she didn’t listen. I applaud that man for standing up to his daughter the only way she would listen. I know from reading the after affects that daughter is listening now. This may be awake up call for all parents. I certainly can take a lesson in better parenting. Better parenting for the good of our children.
I am happy that most of the feed back on this man has been positive which tells me parents are tired of their kids behavior.
I will sit down even if it is for 2 minutes to let my kids know how they could have responded. I will practice what I preach to and tell them that I am grateful for them.
EileenMarie….being Me.
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