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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LadyGrace ·

I've given a few views but to simply answer your post, take some things away for quite a while and then maybe they'll be more grateful when they get them back. Kids these days just have way too much and they don't even know what to do with it. They leave their toys laying in the floor because they've got too many and they lose interest. It takes the fun right out of giving children special things and then you notice they don't even take care of them because they don't appreciate them and they've got so much they become bored and restless. Some parents, need to stop buying their kid's love, by giving them money without even earning it or too many "things". Give a teenage boy or girl a car for free and they won't take care of it, guaranteed, because it means nothing to them, they didn't have to sacrifice or scuffle to buy it with their own money, so it means nothing...they think, 'so what, if I go out and wreck it or trash it up?' But let that teenager buy a car with his or her own money, and you'll see them out in the driveway polishing it, keeping it clean and babying it. Then it means something, and it gives them great pride that they earned it themselves. This generation has their heads screwed on backwards.