Attitude of Gratitude

we are raising one of the most selfish generations derivative we spend so much time as parents thinking about what our children will wear where we will vacation how often do mother and father sit down and say what are we going to do about our daughter's character what are we going to do about our son who seems to be jealous we have a window and that window is very small and once children get older they stop listening as well they stop seeing as well because they think that they know better the foundation of every home just as there's a physical foundation there must be a spiritual foundation in Judaism we say a color at all in attitude of gratitude to raise children with appreciation for who is in their life for what they have for every moment for the time that we have together why do you think it is so difficult for children today to have this attitude of glass why is it that nothing is ever good enough we live in a disposable society you do the sweatshirts stop crying you will get another one did you ever go to school at the end of the year and see the lost and found baseball cap sweatshirts jacket you could close village and nobody comes back to claiming and what we teach our children is that we live in a disposable society where everything is replaceable and when everything is replaceable we stop appreciating what we have and after a while not only things are replaceable but the people become replaceable and we stop cherishing and appreciating the people in our lives because nothing has value anymore how many children say thank you did you ever fly with children on a plane how many children say thank you when they're served a drink a snack and if I don't teach it to this child they will just grow more and more entitled and arrogance now how do we begin to do that we all know the story of Moses when it came to the ten plagues and it came to the first plague of blood God said to Moses you cannot hit the nile river your brother Aaron must do you know why because when you are a baby you were in a bath and the basket was placed in the river and the river saved your life so you cannot hit the river because you must have an attitude of gratitude the river feel the River knows the difference if Moses hits or not God was not concerned with the feelings of the river God was concerned with the character Moses you must learn does attitude of gratitude and yes the river was flowing anyway so what's the big deal did the river go out of its way no the Tonys teaching us the most crucial of parenting lessons yes the river was supposed to flow and yet the bus driver is supposed to drive and the teacher is supposed to teach and mommy is supposed to be there for you and have dinner for you and have a loving home for you and daddy is supposed to be there for you and study with you and take you to football or soccer but that my child does not mean that you do not have a right and responsibility to say thank you thank you to the teacher and thank you to the bus driver and thank you to the security guards and thank you too mom and thank you too dad lesson number one of parenting to open up our children's eyes to those in their life that they take granted it's crucial for a child character [Music]