The Importance of Teaching Kids Gratitude

It’s so important to teach kids to share and be grateful.

This clip is from Episode #2 of the podcast with Robin Taub.

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You know, you’ve done a great job in interviews and in the book bringing up something that I, I think we should talk about more. You’ve got your money coming in. As we’ve mentioned, it’s finite, but you can also look at how much you’re going to give to charity.

How much are you going to share in some way? Back with society, whether it’s friends and family or directly to charities. You do a good job of talking about that and making sure people understand that’s one of the options they have to consider.

Yes, because I think it’s often overlooked. It’s such a valuable lesson for young people for so many reasons. And it doesn’t always have to be giving of your, money or treasure. It can also be giving of your time and kids have so many great opportunities to give their time and give back to the community as they go through school.

It does so many great things. The other thing that’s so amazing, about the share lessons is—no, no parent wants their kid to be spoiled or entitled and bringing the sharing lesson in just reminds kids that not everybody is fortunate enough to live the way they do. It puts things into perspective and if they are starting to become demanding about things—by doing some kind of a family, philanthropy project, or just doing some volunteering it can really teach kids that, you know, they should be grateful for what they have. I think gratitude is also underrated. So that’s why I feel so strongly about share. It really deals with this. You want your kids to have a sense of purpose, not a sense of entitlement. Whether you’re rich or poor, I think every parent would, would feel that way.

Do you agree?

Oh, totally. I mean, Doris Day once said, gratitude is riches, complaint is poverty. And That’s my favorite financial quote. And nothing links more directly to happiness than gratitude. And nothing links more directly to gratitude than perspective. And I would argue community involvement, getting involved with disadvantaged people, et cetera, nothing gives you perspective more effectively than that.