Teach Your Children How to Say Thank You

Studies show that people who thankful can be happy and alright in their body. Also, they can be able to bear problems and make strong friendship. One big book man they call Robert A. Emmons say, when you thankful “it can protect you from other thing them that can cause problem for you. For example, it can protect you from getting vex quick-quick and keeping grudge. Also, it can protect you from being greedy and jealous of other people.”a

How children can benefit when they show that they thankful? They did one study for four years among young people. They find out that 700 of them who were thankful, it was hard for them to do thing them like, spying while taking test, taking drugs, drinking liquor or having other attitude problem.

• It hard for children to say thank you when they feel that they deserve what they getting. Plenty children can feel that they deserve the good-good them that can happen to them. So it can make them to not be thankful.

  This attitude in plenty people today. That the reason why one mother name Katherine say, “The world can teach people that they must get anything they want.” “People in the world can use newspapers, radio, TV and the internet to show us plenty pictures of some thing them. And they can tell us say we ‘deserve’ them, and we must be the first to buy them.”

• Teach your children to be thankful even when they still small. One mother name Kaye say: “When children small, it can be easy to teach them. When your children small and you teach them good habits, it can be like you putting stakes on tree to help it so it can’t fall down.”

How you can teach your children to say thank you

• Teach them what to say. Small children can learn to say thank you when somebody give them something or do good thing for them. When they getting big, than they will be learning how to be more thankful.

  

  Bible advice: “Show yourselves thankful.”​—⁠Colossians 3:⁠15.

  “Our three-year-old grandson can always say ‘thank you.’ And when he want ask for something he can say ‘please.’ He learn that one from his ma and pa. His ma and pa can always show that they thankful. So, it teaching him to be thankful too”​—⁠Jeffrey.

• Teach them by what you do. You not think it will be good to help your children to write letter to say thank-you to someone who do good thing for them? Also, when you give your children small-small work to do in the house, it will help them to know what it mean it mean to take care of family.

  

  Bible advice: “There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.”​—⁠Acts 20:⁠35.

  “Our two young children can help the family when it come to cooking or doing work in the house. It can help them to be thankful for the effort that we the parents making.”​—⁠Beverly.

• Teach them the attitude they must get. Try to look at thankfulness to be plant that growing in rich soil. When people bring their self down they can know that they need help to be successful in everything they do. And this one can make them to be thankful for the help that other people give them.

  

  Bible advice: “With humility consider others superior to you, as you look out not only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.”​—⁠Philippians 2:​3, 4.

  “Sometimes when we eating we can be lecturing about some of the good thing them that happen during the day. Each person can tell the family what they thankful for. It can make everybody happy instead of feeling bad.”​—⁠Tamara.

Remember this: Set the example. It will be easy for your children to be thankful if they always hear you telling them or other people thank you.