Thursday, July 01, 2021


In A Healthy Country, Olympic Athletes Who Disrespect The Flag Would Be Kicked
Off The Team

By Matt Walsh

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The Roman philosopher Cicero once said that gratitude is the parent of all
virtues. It’s not difficult to see how this would be true. Gratitude is a
virtue which contains many other virtues. In order to be truly grateful to
someone, or for something, you must also be humble, prudent and kind. Gratitude
is the sister of generosity — the latter in the giving, the former in the
receiving. If one is present in an interaction but not the other, there is a
risk that soon both will be lost. Anyone who has ever tried to be consistently
generous to a habitually ungrateful person knows how quickly generosity can
morph into resentment if you aren’t careful.



This is why, as parents, we spend so much time teaching gratitude to our kids.
After you take your child out for ice cream, or to the zoo, or put dinner on
the table, there is that common refrain: “What do you say?” The child,
prompted, shouts: “Thank you!” One day, hopefully, he will not need to be
prompted anymore. In the meantime, you solicit the “thank you” not merely to
teach good manners — though that is part of it — but on a deeper level, to
inculcate a sense of gratitude in a child who, left to his own devises, will
naturally take most things for granted. We teach gratitude not for our sake,
but for theirs. Raise your child to be grateful and you will have raised him to
be happy, well adjusted, and successful.

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