the grateful kid
Ungrateful: it’s one of the parental big guns, the sort of word you reach for when you’re being pushed to the edge. But now a growing body of research suggests that cultivating gratitude in your children could be more than just a question of manners. It could also be a way of making your child happier, calmer and able to form stronger relationships. So how exactly do we take our inherently self-centred children and make them care about the outside world? The answer is both simpler and more profound than you might expect.
For Miller, the light-bulb moment came when she realised that the biggest problem her children had faced in the previous week was when the wi-fi stopped working.
When you’re in the day-to-day routine of raising kids, it can be easy to forget how much childhood has changed, even in the space of a single generation. Children today often live lives of
