TEDxSF - Louie Schwartzberg - Gratitude

I watched this video with the kids this morning and we talked about gratitude. They looked up "thanks" in their scripture index and we did some reading. Then we discussed how recognizing all the blessings we have (like the beauty of nature we just watched in this video) will help us to be positive, not complain and lift those around us. There's a part in the video that said "each day is a gift." I taught them about the gift of agency. We decided together that today we can choose to be grateful and positive or ungrateful and negative. We can choose to count stars or to count mud puddles.

Here is what they came up with after our lesson. Jane's is on top, then Charlie, then Jacob's. Jane had some neat "ungrateful" things, like a thorn, wind blowing off her hat and dogs with their hair standing up on their backs. I liked how Jacob was grateful for colors.

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In this video she is quoting Proverbs 16:24. Jacob has been learning it for our recitation day tomorrow and somehow Scarlet picked it up all on her own and surprised us.

Scarlet is wild- she bosses all of us around, all day! We all get such a kick out of her new phrases, like today when she said, "Are you kidding me?" She does this thing where she repeats herself about 4000 times when she wants something- its like demands on auto pilot. My personal favorite is when she repeats, "I'm hungry mom." Over and over and over and over. Even after she has just had a bowl of oatmeal, applesauce, potato soup, a cheese biscuit and a some yogurt. So we've learned that I'm hungry really means "I'm so tired, please put me to bed immediately." She LOVES to dance- especially if she has a "princess" (dress that twirls) on. Anytime I wear a dress or skirt she asks me, "Are you a princess mom? Does that one dance?" This means she wants me to twirl so we can find out if my dress is a princess our not (if it twirls or not), if it's not a princess than it's useless to even try to dance. You can't dance without a "princess".