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Sep 2024
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Entitlement vs. Gratitude: Shaping Your ...

MARK GREGSTON
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Join Mark Gregston and Wayne Shepherd in today’s podcast as they discuss how to prevent entitlement from taking root in your teen’s life and cultivate a heart of gratitude instead. Mark highlights the importance of addressing entitlement at its source and shares insightful tips on creating a home environment that fosters gratitude. He offers practical strategies for shifting your teen's mindset from "I deserve" to "I'm grateful," and reminds us that it begins with modeling gratitude in our own lives.

Mark also encourages parents to let their teens know that while we owe them nothing, we want to give them everything out of love. For more podcasts and articles on teens and gratitude, visit parentingtodaysteens.org/?s=gratitude

Parenting Today's Teens is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual advice to help you grow into the parent you want to be, visit parentingtodaysteens.org.



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