How to Help Gratitude Grow in Your Kids [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

Alicia Doktor 3/14/184:00 AM

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 gratitude when I thought he should.”

But how does gratitude develop? How early do kids start to feel and express gratitude?

[For more on this story by MARYAM ABDULLAH, go to https://greatergood.berkeley.e...de_grow_in_your_kids]

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