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When your children are younger, let's say five to 15, when they don't get their way, they're

going to stew about it. They're going to make you pay for not getting their way. But this is a

wonderful opportunity for you to teach them that thankfulness is something that will help in the

situation. I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up the

focus on the family parenting department. And gratitude. Danny, I think there's research that shows

gratitude is kind of a superpower that we can tap into, but we don't use it. And kids don't learn it,

it seems, apart from some parents who kind of push it, like write the thank

you note, say thank you, sir, thank you, ma'am. What are we talking about here when we say

thankfulness and gratitude? Yeah, for kids, I need to learn that gratitude is a mindset that we

enter our life with. So you can enter the day with the heart of gratitude or a heart where

you're demanding the world needs to give you something. And so when you start off the day with the heart of gratitude or a heart where you're demanding the world needs to give

you something. And so when you start off the day with gratitude, you're saying, hey, we have a brand

new day. We get to unwrap today. And thankfulness means that you are actually showing that

that gratitude through a thankful posture. So that means thankful words, noticing that people are doing things and saying,

hey, I'm thankful for that or thank you for doing that. And we try to do that as parents. Sometimes

we'll say, hey, make sure you tell them thank you. Make sure you say thank you for that. And I remember

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