My husband’s goal last summer was to encourage the kids to be more grateful.
They’ve got the basics – please, thank you – but we are nine years into this parenting thing and were hoping there might be some appreciation… Although to be fair, it was probably only once I had kids that I truly appreciated what mum and dad did for us.
Anyway, we hadn’t seen an appreciable difference.
It was only a few days after Christmas when I asked my husband whether the absence of ungratefulness equals gratefulness?
The children had not got a lot on their Christmas list, but had taken it well. They’d still been spoilt in my opinion, but still, progress?
Ironically, the next morning, our son came in early to discuss a burning issue.
How he’d really, REALLY wanted a lego sandcrawler.
And not all the other things he’d got.
Hmmm, more lessons required.
Tough Mother 