Posts tagged teaching children gratitude
A game of rose vs. thorn.

Celebrating the mini-wins has been one of the best things to come out of this pandemic. Every night we sit around the dinner table and play a game of rose vs. thorn. I can thank my husband for starting this tradition because it’s taught my children to appreciate the small things in life. A sunny day, an unexpected treat left at the front door, dinner on the table, a FaceTime call with a friend…you get the gist. What’s wonderful about this is that none of us talk about material things. We talk about our small moments of gratitude that we are experiencing everyday because we so badly miss human interaction, events, parties and some of the things we may have taken for granted in the past. That’s a good parenting moment, right?

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