10 Tips to Decrease Entitlement and Increase Gratitude

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, I’m sharing 10 science-backed, practical ways to foster gratitude and prevent entitlement in kids. As the season of giving approaches, it’s the perfect time to reflect on how we can help our children appreciate what they have while staying grounded. I’ll cover everything from modeling gratitude in everyday moments to teaching kids the value of chores, delayed gratification, and empathy.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.4	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman, and today I am doing a solo episode because I got a lot of requests for this.
0:19.9	A lot of people are thinking about gratitude right now because Thanksgiving is coming up.
0:24.7	But what I am hearing more of is I just don't want my kids to be entitled.
0:31.4	So how do I prevent my kids from growing up entitled when they have so much in their lives that can confuse them
0:40.8	and make them act entitled. And here are my 10 ways rooted in science with a little sprinkled
0:50.4	practical that can just be gauges on small ways we can make changes so that we are not
0:58.1	raising entitled kits. If you enjoy this kind of episode, please write a review an Apple podcast,
1:05.1	just like a quick little something. I actually think you can do it in Spotify too. It helps get the word out. It helps me know
1:12.6	what you want to hear. And it's super helpful. And of course, you know, I have a book, The Five Principles
1:19.9	of Parenting, Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans. There's a lot about this in there. And on my
1:25.8	substack, it's free. You can get all of this information on my website,
1:30.3	Dr.alisa.com. I also on the website have a way for you to get in touch and a way for you to
1:38.9	sign up for the extra Zoom that we do once a month for substack subscribers. And you can actually see a lot of the
1:48.5	episodes divided both by age and topic of interest in case, you know, there are now over 300
1:53.9	episodes. And I know that a lot of people want to see what topics are most relevant to them.
2:00.7	So first of all, I just want to say that one of the
2:04.6	things that distinguishes privilege and entitlement is gratitude. So it does make a lot of sense
2:14.0	over this sort of time of year where we talk about gratitude a lot. But here are some
2:19.2	things that you can do. So number one, do a gratitude hunt. That means once a day, no matter what the
2:27.7	mood, no matter what miserable, happy, or somewhere in between thing is happening, hunt for something good. This is something we can
2:36.7	model and then we can get our kids to do it. That might mean that when you're rushing to the car to
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