How do you handle unthankful kids or they are not supposed to be thankful to parents?

Was having this interesting discussion with other moms and all of them were sharing how unthankful kids have become these days who don't know the value of everything we do for them. Some newly become moms countered with saying, it's a duty of us as parents and kids don't need to be that thankful.

What you guys think?

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DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

I think young children are not going to understand gratitude because they have no concept yet of what it even means. They are only just learning about the world and the people in it and what is expected of them.

However, once the kids become teens it's time for them to start understanding the concept of sacrifice and commitment. Therefore they should start understanding what their parents do for them, and be grateful.

LadyGrace ·

@DearAmbellina2113 I'm grateful that my parents disciplined me as a young child and that's where it should start, not when they get to be a teenager. Then it's too late, and I learned very young, to be grateful. Children are not beyond this.

Ticklish34 · 41-45, F

Parents teach being grateful at like 4@DearAmbellina2113

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@Ticklish34 they teach "please and thank you", but small kids have no idea what gratitude really is until they're older.

LadyGrace ·

@DearAmbellina2113 I totally disagree. Children are never too young to learn gratitude, giving and sharing, and discipline. When a child takes a toy away from another one, even as babies, and you correct that, then they can see that people are supposed to share and care about each other.

Ticklish34 · 41-45, F

My little cousin understood it when she was 4@DearAmbellina2113