How Do We Pass On the Gift of Gratitude to our Children?

In a complex culture with non-stop invitations to do and have more, parents often wonder how to raise grateful kids. In this show, Dr. Rebecca Hershberg, clinical psychologist, child expert and author of The Tantrum Survival Guide, offers parents some answers. She invites parents to consider their own definitions and expressions of gratitude and the messages they bring from their own childhood. She validates the common feelings of parental joy in giving and the fear of spoiling. She reminds us to consider expectations of request and signs of gratitude in children in terms of the child’s age and what can get triggered in parent and child when extended family are present at Holiday Times. She discusses parents feeling guilty about giving and the difference when giving also involves playing or spending time with your child or teen. She invites parents to consider gratitude as a way of being in life that is felt, observed, and shared in routines and rituals with children all year round. Among the wonderful things you give to your children – Listen in for some ideas on the Gift of Gratitude.