How to raise more grateful children:If you think today’s kids have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement, you may be right: “Every generation seems to complain that children ‘these days’ are so much more entitled and ungrateful than in years past. This time, they might be right. In today’s selfie culture, which often rewards bragging and arrogance over kindness and humility, many people are noticing a drop-off in everyday expressions of gratitude.” Poll data backs it up: Only 35% of Americans aged 18-24 report expressing gratitude regularly, a recent survey found.

Gratitude has benefits… “A growing body of research points to the many psychological and social benefits of regularly counting your blessings,” the Wall Street Journal reports in a recent weekend read.

…and it can be taught. Here’s one exercise you can do at home: Read ‘The Giving Tree’ by Shel Silverstein and ask your kids “to write down one thing they would do to show the generous tree in the story that they were grateful for what she had done.”