3 Secrets to Raising Grateful Kids

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As parents, we do our best to raise kind, thoughtful, appreciative kids. But despite our efforts, our children can sometimes seem downright ungrateful. In this episode, a mom writes to Janet about her frustrations with her sons, aged six and four. Rather than appreciate the gifts and special outings she treats them to, they inevitably ask for more, more, more and then complain when she won't give it to them. "It feels like nonstop unhappiness when I'm trying so hard to make them happy." This mom wonders if perhaps it's expecting too much of her kids to feel grateful when they are legitimately disappointed, but she wants them to learn to focus on the positive. Janet offers her perspective on what causes children to behave this way and offers three suggestions that can help our kids to appreciate the efforts we make for them. Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" is available at ⁠⁠⁠NoBadKidsCourse.com⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠JanetLansbury.com⁠⁠⁠. Please support our sponsors! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy.
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11am.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:20.6	Imman is always on calling to her kids and her patience.
0:26.8	One day she got the best ping ever. It was the Expedia app. Flight prices to Cosemel had just
0:32.6	dropped, so it was a great time to book. On the beach, Iman finally felt on call to herself. Almost.
0:40.3	You were made to use your Do Not Disturb mode. We were made to track flight prices to out of office.
0:46.3	Expedia, made to travel. Available as a member benefit.
0:50.3	Hi, this is Janet Lansbury. Welcome to Unruffled. Well, today I want to talk about something that we all want for our kids. We want them to feel it. We want them to express it. Gratitude. So we model this for them, right? We are generous with them. We're doing all the right
1:15.3	things. But sometimes we find that it doesn't seem to be working, that our child doesn't seem
1:22.6	grateful for the special things we do for them or what we give to them.
1:30.3	And that's concerning, right?
1:35.9	What I would like to do today, I have a note here from a parent, a question about this topic.
1:43.1	I want to explore through her question why kids don't seem as grateful as we believe they should be and what we can do about it.
1:46.1	The subject line of her email is handling perceived ungratefulness.
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