What are the important research implications of teaching gratitude to children?

When a person knows how to be grateful, he or she will put it into action and practice it in life. A person will feel happy because of gratitude. A person who does not know how to be grateful will not understand what true happiness and fulfillment are. Gratitude is a philosophy of life, a great wisdom in life. Life in the world, can not be smooth sailing, all kinds of failure, helplessness need us to face bravely, open-minded to deal with. At this time, it is to blame life, and then become depressed, depressed? Or to life full of gratitude, fell down and get up again? British writer Thackeray said, "Life is a mirror, you laugh, it also laughs; you cry, it also cries." Gratitude is not purely a kind of psychological comfort, nor is it an escape from reality, nor is it the spiritual triumph of AQ. Gratitude is a way of singing life, it comes from the love and hope for life. Specific practices: 1, teaching by example is better than teaching by words, parents and children spend time together, the so-called near ink is black, near Zhu is red, not to mention that parents are the object of imitation of the child. Parents should first live a life of gratitude. Facing difficulties to be brave to accept; in adversity to be self-improvement; to plan a great work to be a good start, good end; spring breeze to guard against arrogance and impatience. Keep a transcendent heart, a happy heart, an easy-going heart, an equal heart, a soft heart, and a tolerant heart. Remember to always say 'thank you' to your children. Expressing gratitude to others is the highest method of showing respect and courtesy, and the safest way to build and maintain relationships. James said, "The deepest human expectation is to be appreciated." Satisfying someone's human need with gratitude is not only easy but rewarding. We need to make it a habit and one that will rub off on our children. Being grateful and saying thank you to people are two habits that lead to success. Learning to be thankful is an important step towards self-actualization and is the easiest and most effective way to teach our children.2. Be aware of natureEncourage your children to be thankful for what inspires them around them. Marvel at the power of the wind and the vastness of the sea; the flawlessness of a snowflake, the stars at night, or the rugged beauty of a mountain range. As Goethe said, "Nature is a living and visible garment of God." Not long ago, there was a report that the author of the article was in the dining room of a hotel in a Los Angeles suburb early in the morning when he found three black children at the table writing thank-you notes to their mother with their heads buried in their hands. This is our daily homework, the children said. The author read what the children wrote: "The wildflowers on the side of the road are blooming beautifully," "Yesterday's pizza tasted good," "Yesterday, my mom told me a very interesting story." etc. It turns out that the thank-you notes they wrote to their mothers were not specifically to thank them for all the help they had received, but rather to record the little moments in their lives that made them feel happy. Their young minds don't know the meaning of grace, but only know that they should be grateful for every good thing. They have a "grateful heart" for many things that we take for granted. If you look carefully and realize, each of us is lucky to be in this world. Whether it is the sky and earth, or the wind and rain, a flower, a grass, a smile, are nature's gift to us. 3, the attitude into action a small gesture, like a smile, a small gift, like a greeting card is always welcome. When a child helps to put the dishes away at home, he is expressing his gratitude for the family and the food with his actions. When a student helps a teacher carry the tape recorder, he is expressing his gratitude for school and teachers in action. During the holidays, make small gifts for family and friends to show your appreciation. This is also a practical way to learn gratitude. A middle school in Qingdao assigns gratitude homework. Every day, students are asked to complete. "Have you caused trouble to others today? Did you make progress today? Who are you most grateful to today?" The purpose of assigning gratitude homework to students is to let students learn to reflect, be good at discovering the merits of others, strengthen self-discipline, learn to be grateful to those who have helped them, cultivate a healthy mindset in students, and then shape their sound personalities. Parents can imitate this method. In addition, a middle school in Beijing also has a special homework - to wash parents' feet, and so on. It is all about turning attitudes into practical actions, starting from loving parents. If you don't even love your own parents, how can you love your career, your country, and others in the future? We parents must not over-indulge our children and kill all the germs of love for their elders. China has long had a motto: "Love others as we love our own children, and care for others as we love our own old." Starting from small, from small things to do, from the form to the sense. 4, than the top than the bottom of the children often pay attention to the community there are some families without housing, the parents of the loss of labor, or those who are disabled, and people begging on the street. After seeing their hard life, their own comfortable life will be another experience. Listen to the old people talk about the past, or watch some books and movies describing the hard life, such as "How Iron and Steel are Made", "The Red Detachment of Women", "The White-haired Girl" and so on. Reminiscing about hard times is actually beneficial to children nowadays. From the horizontal as well as vertical multi-directional comparison, do not always look up, you are more fortunate than many people, than the top is not enough, than the bottom that is enough. 5, make a book of thanksgiving collection out of a stack of old magazines. Flip through them and cut out the images that you think are worthy of thanks. Stick the pictures in a book and accumulate them. Soon, you'll have a visually appealing memoir of your life's gratitude. At the same time, cut out and savor stories of gratitude. Sometimes we find ourselves overwhelmed by the smallest of favors, but we don't feel the big ones from your nearest and dearest. Usually try to write some words about gratitude, thanksgiving or thankfulness, all of which form a collection of gratitude. Go through it often and reflect on yourself regularly. Worries and Prospects: One of the worries about teaching gratitude to children is that our education may still lack sufficient guidance and theoretical support for it, making it vulgar and equating it with gratitude in the religious sense. If we equate it with gratitude in the religious sense, where others are gods and we are slaves or sinners, then it becomes a kind of slavery education, and that is absolutely wrong. We want the essence of it. Gratitude itself is a higher emotion, and this emotion is not limited to a superficial thanksgiving or a retribution. It should be a deep level of understanding, a reflection, and then an embrace. Zimmer, in Loyalty and Gratitude, mentions, "The uniqueness of gratitude lies not in the return but with the realization that it cannot be returned." "A drop of kindness is returned by a spring of water." Since kindness cannot be returned, it is passed on to others in the form of giving, forming a "chain of gratitude". With this "chain of gratitude", our society will become a big circle of mutual love, mutual assistance, civilization and friendliness. Our life will also be better.