New & Improved Ways To Teach Children to be Grateful (or scare the hell out of them trying!)

It is hard to raise a grateful child these days as it seems they want for nothing. We are not rich by any means, but my son never goes hungry, nor do we have to save our money to buy a turkey that we bake and eat for days, then turn the leftover bits into soup that we then eat for more days (hi mom!). Hell, even the welfare mom down the street with 3 kids and a job managing a burger joint's kids don't go without. They have a trampoline! And electric scooters! And so much crap that it spills out of their house and onto their porch....and into their yard.

I have taken to new measures of teaching my son to be grateful. Some people may not agree with my tactics, but in a world where we go out of our way to cushion our children for anything "ugly", I am thinking that shock and awe is the answer.

If the child has a fit over what is for dinner, *SHOCK and AWE* show them a picture of this:




If the child doesn't want to help around the house, or complains about going to school *SHOCK and AWE* show them a picture of this:



For some reason when I googled "child labor" all of the images are of kids smiling! I can't scare my kid with other smiling kids.....The kids need to look miserable! Google, I beg you, more images of miserable children doing child labor!!

At the very least, I'm going to make my kid watch this Radiohead video.

ANYWAYS....

Ultimately, even I need to be reminded every now and again to be grateful that I have food to feed my family and that I'm not working 12 hours a day gluing shoes together to put that food on the table.

And yes, maybe I did compose this whole blog just so that I could post the new Radiohead video....what of it?