When I hear the words "Gratitude practice" I want to roll my eyes with the biggest annoyed sigh the world has ever heard because it sounds BORING and TEDIOUS - And I actually know the benefits of it 😂😂😂

So imagine how your kiddos probably feel when we try to create times and places where they HAVE to express gratitude instead of it naturally arising from their delight.

If you want your children and family to naturally live from a place of gratitude there are a few key pieces to this!!! 

1 - Learn to find and recognize what delights us each individually - what do we LOVE to do, experience, have, taste, touch, hear, see and more?

What brings us joy and happiness? - this month to celebrate the spirit of thanks-giving my family is creating a Love List on our wall that we add items to daily as they come to us with zero pressure




2 - Find fun ways to help your children discover the joy and fulfillment of helping create joy for OTHERS. If seeing other people light up lights them up, it becomes easy to access that joy and gratitude and APPRECIATION for others as well. This can be as simple as holding doors open for people who need assistance and seeing how you have helped improve their day a little or receiving their gratitude

or telling jokes to new people to see if you can make them smile or laugh

- we are going to use our Love List later in the month to begin sharing the love and making other family members' Love List items come true!!!




3 - APPRECIATE your family lavishly! Excitedly celebrate the things you appreciate about them as a person and that they do for other family members. Share this OFTEN and with big energy and JOY - Playful and Powerful Parents lead by example 

SHOW them how to GROW

I had an awesome mentor once who taught me that to appreciate someone is to grow their value (in your mind and in theirs) which just grows and grows and grows! 

AND - this is important, share the appreciation without any caveats - absolutely ZERO: 
❌"If only you could remember to do this more often"
❌"Unlike yesterday, I see you actually __________, thank you!"
❌"This was so awesome!!! Thank you. Next time maybe you could _____"
❌"I just love your sense of humor so much, even when you________"


UNCONDITIONAL APPRECIATION WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!

And your family gets to be gratitude ground zero - thank you!