In fact, if you want to raise a grateful child in an entitled world, gratitude needs to become an ongoing conversation and practice in your home. The question then becomes… How do you actually get your kids to practice and express gratitude regularly without sounding like a broken record?
Gratitude journal for kid
When picking out the best journal for your child, try to avoid “shallow journals”, or ones that only prompt your child to write down three things each day as there are many other dynamic ways to teach gratitude to your kids.
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Find a Compassion Experience near you
The Compassion Experience is a family-friendly immersive exhibit that allows you to experience other cultures, the realities of global poverty, and how you can change the life of a child living half a world away.
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Gratitude scavenger hunt
Grab a sheet of paper and make a list of scavenger hunt prompts, or use the two gratitude scavenger hunt pages inside of the Activity Gratitude Journal For Kids. Then go around the house, get outside, or hit the town and help your kids find a variety of people, places and things they’re grateful for.
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Family gratitude board
If you want gratitude to become a regular conversation in your home, you can hang up a whiteboard or chalkboard and have everyone write down one thing they’re grateful for each day. Before a new month begins, take a picture of your board so you won’t ever lose what you wrote down!
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Gratitude stone
My friend Betty said she used gratitude stones when her kids were little. They wrote one word on each small stone and had them carry the stones in their pocket all day to serve as a reminder to them.
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