Thanksgiving Heart: Cultivating Gratitude in Children

Last year, I was introduced to one of the sweetest women – Stacie from Motherhood on a Dime. Over the past year, we’ve talked online back and forth, and seeing her again at Allume this past October was a time filled with laughing and so much fun.

Apparently, she didn’t fill me in on everything that she’s been up to lately. A little something in the form of an e-book geared at cultivating gratitude in our children – Thanksgiving Heart.

While Thanksgiving seems to have snuck up on me this year, we have a very quiet holiday planned. While we will share the things that we are thankful for around the table, gratitude is NOT something that we are to focus on during a certain time of year. Gratitude belongs in our every day lives – and at the core of who we all are.

After my trip to Africa this past May, it is something that often gives me reason to pause and think. Surrounding me at every turn were people who had so little through our eyes, and yet they were so filled with joy and hope. They spoke always of how they were blessed. It was convicting and overwhelming in so many ways.

We are beyond blessed each and every day – and yet so very ungrateful in the littlest things. Personally, I want our children to have hearts that are overflowing with thanksgiving every single day of the year.

This Friday, I have a long quite time of sitting in a hospital waiting room and I’ll be reading Thanksgiving Heart: Cultivating Gratitude in Young Children All Year Round. Yes, it’s after Thanksgiving Day – but this is a yearlong truth that can be applied in our lives and I look forward to the practical tips Stacie offers in the book.

The Thanksgiving Heart eBook includes:

• Practical ways to encourage thanksgiving in children.
• 30 service projects
• 15 gratitude discussion starters for families
• Application questions at the end of each chapter.
• Printable 30-Day Scripture & Activity Guide
• Printable Gratitude Journal
• Printable Thank You Card
• Printable Incentive Chart

Retail Price:  $3.99 $1.99 (through November 21, 2012)

Purchase the eBook Thanksgiving Heart:  Cultivating Gratitude in Young Children All Year Round for just $1.99 (thru 11/21/12) or read it on your Kindle here.

In the spirit of being thankful and showing gratitude – what is one thing that YOU are thankful for right this very moment? Leave a comment today and share!