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You sacrifice so much for your kids, and sometimes they don't express gratitude,

and you don't want them to grow up feeling entitled

and walking all over you or maybe your kids can't seem to control themselves. So how can you

teach kids gratitude and self-control in practical ways? That's what we're going to talk about on

today's episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. So welcome. This is Kirk Martin founder of Celebrate Calm. You can find us at Celebrate Calm.com. If you need help, reach out to our son Casey, C-A-S-E-Y, at Celebrate Calm.com. Tell us about your kids. What are you struggling with? We get together as a family, discuss it. We reply back to you personally, usually very, very quickly. If you ever need help financially with any of our products, if you want to book a live event, just talk to Casey. It's awesome.

So, many of us have kids, right, that don't express gratitude, they struggle with self-control.

And so here is my least favorite way to address gratitude with a lecture. You know, kids, it's really important for you

to learn to express gratitude in life because, ick, I hate that. It's such a patronizing tone. And it

pretty much guarantees kids will stop listening. So here's a better way. And I want to share kind of a more specific example of a

couple that I'm mentoring through our phone calls. And I think it's perfectly fair to say the following

in a very matter of fact way. So before you give your child extra time, extra privileges, in this case, the kids were

kind of taking advantage of the parents because the parents are like, hey, I'll give you extra

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