The Importance of Teaching Our Children to be Thankful
Teaching Our Children the Skill of Being Thankful and Expressing Gratitude Hello Elementary Friends, Welcome to Thanksgiving Break 2017! Mitch and I are on the the trek across Texas for Thanksgiving this year. We are making a big circle starting in Lubbock to see my mom and Dwayne, then to San Angelo to visit friends, Robyn and Andy Smith, tonight we are settling into our beach house for three nights with Mitch's family, then Friday up to the Metroplex to see more relatives and to Azle with Tommy and Cyndi Standefer, and then finally back home! We think we will put around 1800 miles on the car by the time we arrive back in Highlands Ranch! It's all good, though, and wonderful to see so many people who are important in our lives. Traveling in the car has given me opportunity to consider the week upon us. Being thankful is not hard for me, but I have seen children who have not been taught this skill. I call it a skill because I believe that it must be ...