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A Quick and Easy Way to Grow Grateful Hearts for the Holidays (and for life)

November 21, 2017 by Angela Pruess 2 Comments

Inside: Learn why gratefulness increases your happiness and well-being and a simple 3 step practice to make reflecting on gratitude easy yet amazingly meaningful for your child.

Join the #YESvember challenge and find more joy, fun and connection in parenting! (details at the end of this post).

 

“Can Santa bring me this racetrack mama?”

The question was innocent enough but my irritation rose as I responded to the question for the 43rd time that day.

“You can ask Santa, but he chooses what to bring for kids”.

It was the quickest way I could think of addressing my three-year-olds newly realized ideology that speaking his wish list out into the atmosphere would make said items magically appear under the tree.

I really needed to nip that idea in the bud because he had in fact asked for at least twenty-eight different toys (98% of them race car related) before lunch, despite the fact that is wasn’t even December yet. All of this childlike greed delivered from a crisp red Toy catalog delivered to our mailbox, that I had left out on the counter.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: cultivating gratitude, holiday mindfulness

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Angela Pruess

I'm Angela, a licensed child therapist and mom of 3. I'm here to help you raise an emotionally healthy, resilient child who'll change the world through emotional intelligence, positive discipline, growth mindset, mindfulness, art/nature, childhood mental health and the therapeutic power of play. Let's help your child live their BEST life.

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