How to Help Gratitude Grow in Your Kids [greatergood.berkeley.edu]
Recently, one of my friends was venting about her teenage daughter being “so ungrateful!” She asked me, “How can she not know how much she has?” This mom isn’t alone. Parents hope (or expect!) that their children will grow up to be grateful. In a recent study , Amy Halberstadt and colleagues found that parents get peeved when their children don’t show gratitude . As one parent said, “I can be embarrassed as a parent, I can feel angry at [my child] that he hasn’t sufficiently conveyed...