Gratitude – The Great Attitude

“What we tend to plant will be harvested later, not only suits for seeds it is also for deeds”

In recent years it is witnessed that the fast-moving world has started losing the good expressions like being kind, thankful and sadly provided growth to the attitudes like outrageous and emotions like being frustrated by the world. However, this should be shifted towards the growth of promising manners such as gratitude. Here we will see about the teaching of gratitude to the children.

 

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What’s gratitude?

The characteristic of including appreciation and an enthusiasm to exhibit acknowledgement for and to return compassion. This might be difficult to teach someone to be grateful because it comes only when that person gets to an understanding of gratitude. The word gratitude is originated from the Latin word gratia, which implies kindness, graciousness, or thankfulness.

 

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Why that is important to kids?  

Favourable psychological analyses have indicated that children with the attitude of thankfulness tend to be delighted, better involved with entertainments and academics, have good friendships and reveal enormous fulfilment in common. Reviews moreover express that children are barely covetous, miserable and materialistic than ungrateful children.

Acquiring gratefulness will not only be a good one to mind but also for the body too. This also leads to the removal of unfavourable habits. This opens up the opportunity of being a great human being. Being grateful a person makes them feel good about their relationships. As said before gratitude is not uttering thanks to everyone it is more than that. So, parents in order to ensure a good life for their children they must teach gratitude.

 

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How to enlighten them? 

Kids can easily learn from the things happening around them. So the best way to make them understand is to make them realise it. This will occur in steps such as witnessing first, encouraging, realising it and performing it.

1) witnessing: Give a chance to the kids to witness when and where to be grateful. This will pave a way for them to be grateful. Be a representative of how you want your children to be. They learn quickly when they get a chance to notice it.

2) encouraging: Keep motivating your kids with good manners every day. As said before it is not a one-day understanding and only can be achieved by day by day practices. Every child will seek to have some acknowledgement of their performance. On the other side, it’ll also allow the children to pay more attention to it. So try to give more appreciations and show love towards them.

3) Realise: Get to know what improvement they got by the steps you have taken and realise what will make them improve further. This is done through daily rituals, that is done by spending time with kids regularly. Which we will discuss later.

4) Performing: Keep doing the above steps and making it better every day will give a great result. Performance must be improved on both the sides or else the progress may get slower or even stop progressing. Never stop acknowledging your kid’s performance.

 

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 Daily rituals

It is very important in this parent-children learning to spend more good time jointly. This is not only for teaching something but to have a good relationship. Sharing good comments and their memories makes the children feel that they are being closer to the parents. This also will give a return sharing from the kids. Bringing out of kids about what they think and what they feel will be easier to teach them as well as learn from them. Things to do regularly,

• Share your good experiences accordingly to the situation, mood.
• Give a positive and energetic comment on anything. Even a comment on the sky, weather.
• Talk about positive views in hard times and make them feel anything in life is solvable.

Let’s have a look at how these steps have worked and what’s its effects.

 

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Study on gratitude:

Couple psychologists, Dr Robert of the University of California and Dr Michael of the University of Miami have performed ample study on thankfulness. In one research, they consulted all volunteers to compose limited paragraphs every week, concentrating on specific themes.

One of them composed about aspects they were pleased for that had happened in the week. A next one composed about day-to-day discomforts or aspects that had embarrassed them and the another composed about incidents that had influenced them. A number of weeks later, the group composed about gratitude were further positive and felt good. Unexpectedly, they further trained more and had limited calls to doctors than those who concentrated on references of irritation.

Following to that research, one another leading researcher in this field, Dr Martin E. P. Seligman, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, assessed the consequence of several favourable psychologies works on 411 people, each distinguished with a constraint task of putting down about earlier remembrances. When their week’s task was to put down and personally provide a message of thankfulness to somebody who had never been appropriately thanked for his or her compassion, volunteers shortly displayed an enormous improvement in satisfaction points.

I hope this would have given you the insight of how important the gratitude is and how to develop it in your kids. Let’s make a better future with better involvement. I’m grateful for your patience and passion for reading.