NO MAMI PIKIN LEFT BEHIND: Gratitude...

I know its been ages. I have no excuses. Please hang in there with me as I do my best to share what I owe all of you wonderful people who have stuck with me all these years. For some reason the conversations were moved to my Facebook page because we were able to get a better thread going. However, I trust that we can do the same here. Now lets talk about gratitude or the lack there of.

Teach your children gratitude by demonstrating behavior that screams GRATITUDE.
It won’t happen by chance. We must raise a generation that is not swimming in entitlement. It starts by not spoiling your children as overcompensation for being too busy. Gratitude at all times is MUST.
Apart from saying the regular THANK YOU in my house I insist on actionable gratitude and more from the heart. (Well they may not really have a choice all the time, but here with some of the things we do). In my home, GRATITUDE IS NON NEGOTIABLE! Especially to GOD.
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1. We send thank you Videos(we basically make videos for almost everything. Videos need time and effort so that its not done just to fulfill being “done”.
2. We write down our appreciation.Thank you notes etc.
3. If you are not treating something of value with care I confiscate it.
4. If you display entitled behavior, we each share in a conversation why that is wrong behavior, plus consequences.
5. We as parents DISPLAY GRATITUDE towards each other.
6. I make sure my children listen in as I offer thank you’s and appreciation each time I can get them around.
7. I take my children to age and environment appropriate FAMILY functions so that they are not being raised on an island and display spoilt rotten behavior. They must interact and tolerate other children/humans. (Remember Family is what you make it. Don’t tell me you don’t have any family around).
8. And more... I will chime in the comments as we discuss.. Are you demonstrating GRATITUDE? No one owes you anything.