The attitude of Gratitude

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy: they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” - Marcel Proust

Gratitude is about focusing on the good and being thankful for the blessings we have in our life. Hence raising thankful kids results in more positive and joyful kids. With this strong belief, I organised ‘gratitude circles’ for kids where they learned the value of thankfulness in an interactive and fun way.
We started with an ice-breaking activity “What makes you smile?” Children came up with innocent and honest replies from getting a fidget spinner as a gift to winning a competition in the school. To delve deeper for the exploration of the term, a popsicle game was played to state their thankfulness for a person, place, thing or lol moment. We delightfully discovered -

“ME + GRATITUDE = HAPPINESS”
The inquisitive and enthusiastic audience learnt the importance of self-gratitude followed by the gratitude for food. The read aloud made them realise how little things in life matter. Each one of them wrote a gratitude letter to mom expressing thankfulness for all she does. The exit pass of the day was a promise of writing “3 things I am thankful for..,” daily for 21 days and filling them in a jar.
One of the kids, Stasha had enjoyed completing the 21 day gratitude challenge with impressive reflections. She was gifted a ‘gratitude journal’ to inculcate gratitude as a daily habit. She shared that she had won a poem competition due to the daily gratitude practice. This motivated other kids also to make their gratitude jars overflow with thank‘full’ness.
A blessed day for me indeed as I had been successful in making a positive difference in the young hearts and minds who will surely make a CHANGE in the society.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!
Amrita Bhajanka