Parents, teachers, and caregivers.... Start a gratitude journal. Just start listing once per day how many things happened for which you are grateful. Be specific. Decide how to show gratitude where you can.
Read it out loud to your kids. Ask if they have any acts they would like to add (be sure to put their name next to their post). Have fun with it. The journal can be a family (or classroom) journal, or, each child can have their own.
p.s. Watch what happens with the people that get heartfelt thanks, notes, emails, cards etc. They will start responding with kindness. But don't tell that to the kids. Gratitude needs to be heartfelt with no expectation. An easy tool that I use to send heartfelt cards, is Send Out Cards. This is a fabulous system. You can even trail the system and send a free card.
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest level of appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." JFK
