Gratitude If we want to find happiness, lets stop thinking about gratitude and ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving. Parents have been tearing their hair about the ingratitude of children for ten thousand years. Even Shakespeares King Lear cried out, How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child! But why should children be thankful - unless we train them to be? Ingratitude is natural - like weeds. Gratitude is like a rose. It has to be fed and watered and cultivated and loved and protected. If our children are ungrateful, who is to blame? Maybe we are. If we have never taught them to express gratitude to others, how can we expect them to be grateful to us? We must remember that our children are very much what we make them. So let us remember that to raise grateful children, we have to be grateful. Let us remember little pitchers have big ears - and watch what we say. To illustrate - the next time we are tempted to belittle someones kindness in the presence of our children, lets stop. Compiled From: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie, pp. 142-144
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:36:33 +0000
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