Happy Friday: Family Gratitude Board
Sent from reader, Hannah:
Hi Collin &Hip2Save team! Recently my husband and I decided to tackle the issue of entitlement in our society by making an intentional effort to raise our kids to be grateful and hard working. Our kids are 3 1/2 and almost 2, so we are starting while they are young.
Every night we have family time with our gratitude board. We take turns saying what we are grateful for and who/what we want to pray for. We also check off our daily chores for the kids on the board.
It has been such a joy to have this daily time to hear my children express what they are thankful for and to hear them think of other people’s needs for their prayer requests.
We want our kids to grow up learning how to work for money, save money, give, and spend wisely. Our children are very young, but they are actually eager and excited to complete their chores, get paid at the end of the week, and take their own money on our Target shopping trips. Our 3 1/2 year old is responsible for making his bed, wiping the table after meals, and putting his laundry away. Our almost 2 year old is responsible for feeding our dog (Digger). They can also earn extra money by doing other extra jobs around the house. It is our goal for our children to grow up to be debt free adults, so I am excited to start teaching them to be money smart while they are so young.
I also record our weekly memorization Bible verse on the board. My son memorized verses for church on Wednesday night, so we practice the verse every night during our family time.
I purchased the dry erase calendar board from Target during the back to school clearance sale for $5. I found the magnets and magnetic marker holder with eraser and markers at Staples on clearance for $1 and $2.
I hope this helps other parents be inspired to start tackling the issue of entitlement within their own family with a focus on gratitude, work ethic, and money wisdom.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
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This is really a great idea !! Your kids are very lucky….
I don’t have any kids yet but sure love this idea for the future 🙂
Absolutely wonderful. Praise God!
I love this idea so much! My Grandma is the most grateful woman I have ever known. As children, she truly taught us, by example, to appreciate every single thing we have to be grateful for in this world. That could be anything from a beautiful bird to a nice, sunny day to a warm plate of food. Recently I started keeping a gratitude journal and by doing so I was able to really see everything I have to be thankful for. I am going to start doing this with my children immediately! What a wonderful thing to instill in them!
Thank you very much for sharing. I am grateful for the post. My kids are older now but I can still see that this could be used. They often visit and I could definitely have something similar for them to see. Blessings to you and your family.
LOVE THIS!!!!! ❤️
Great job Hannah! You’re raising them right!
Good job,Hannah! I really like your purposeful parenting!
this is so awesome! thank you for sharing!!
Love it!
This is a wonderful idea, love this. I have a 2 y.o daughter, I would love to try this maybe in a year or two.
Love this! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Great job, Hannah. You and your husband surely on the right track of parenting. It sure does help to start in their early years. I can see them grow up to be caring responsible adullts. We really need this, especially with the world nowadays. Thank you for such a great idea. God bless your family.
God Bless everyone!
God is good! God Bless everyone!
Love this! Thank you for sharing!
This is beautiful! How awesome!
Kudos to you Hannah! This post makes my heart happy! I wish more parents would teach their children these important things…. If they did the world would be a better place ❤️
This is AWESOME. Love this oh so much. Such an important lesson, and a creative way to teach it. Wishing you many blessings, too many to fit on your chart. 🙂
I love it too!
Thank you Hannah and hip2save team. You’ve inspired me to do this in my preschool classroom. Instead of a bible verse we can learn an inspiring quote, gratitude, and ways we can show kindness to others
You brought tears to my eyes. I needed to see this. My little ones have weekly bible verses they must memorize for church and I haven’t had the time to sit down with them and work on memorizing…..I’m always running around with too many things to do. Tonight am going to re prioritize
Great idea! Love it, thanks for sharing!
Wow…thats amazing.Thank you so much for sharing and inspiring us.
May God Bless your family!!!
And may God Bless all of you !!!!
I have 5 little one and we too teaching then helping, working, and we always try to pray together and 1 or 2 times in the week we do little service with them . So they sing , preach and pray.
It’s really interesting watching them do this!!
I am thankful God for my kids.
May Gods Blessings be on all our kids. Be Bless!!!
LOVE this! Great job!!
We have family play/reading time every evening from 8-8:40pm with the twins, get ready for bed, and say family prayers together. I really like the gratitude board (and chores, I thought 3.5 yrs is still too young for chores and allowances). Thank you so much for the idea!
Love this!!! Thank you for sharing! High five, Hannah!🙌🙏💚💜
Wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing!
I love the idea! I have 4 kids ages 1 to 8. We do chores but I keep pushing the idea of family time but my husband is an extremely busy man. Plus my kids rarely have leftover time for themselves after all the homework, dinner, & preparation for bed. Maybe I’ll try to set up a schedule & fit in family time once a week for now. I attempted to follow a schedule in the summer but with frequent breastfeeding, gardening, cooking, laundry, & extra chores (since all kids were home), it didn’t quite work out. I won’t give up though! I have a control center inside our walk-in pantry door with calender, chores, bills, spot for each child’s belongings, etc. Honestly, my biggest issue is wasting too much time on hip2save (don’t want to miss any good deals!). Plus it takes me lots of time to prepare for my weekly shopping trip too (especially to print/organize coupons, etc). I’ll try to be more efficient though & maybe quit checking hip2save multiple times a day. I’m already spending less time on social media (I used to share my entire life until I realized that’s all I lived for & didn’t really enjoy life in the moment…I captured moments instead). Anyways, thanks for the inspiration!
Wow, Hannah! This is such an awesome job you’ve done! I wish I had done this when my kids were little. This is a great way to teach children to be grateful and appreciative of what they have, and to work hard for something. Thank you for sharing and will pass this on to my now adult children so they can use it for their little ones 🙂 Have a blessed day!
Wow Hannah and Hip2save, thank you so much for sharing this. I don’t have children yet but I’m inspired to make this for myself.
Love everything about this!
Thank you Hannah for sharing this! It’s made me realize that I can do much more in terms of prioritizing and emphasizing gratitude, service and chores with my now 5 year old. We pray nightly but can do so much more and your post reminded me of this. God bless you and your family!