Did you know that cultivating gratitude in your child can promote feelings of happiness and self-worth?
There is nothing wrong with wanting "more" out of life but it can easily make us forget to count our blessings. With increased marketing to tweens and adolescent girls, not having just the "right clothes" or the right "stuff" can make a girl feel as if she´s lacking. In addition, it can also be difficult not to hyperfocus on and replay in our heads the most negative incident of the day. An effective exercise for your daughter to try at the end of each day is naming five things for which she is grateful – it´s also a fun exercise to do together, since it will benefit you both. Keeping a "gratitude journal" might also give her something to look back on during particularly challenging times. A focus on the abundance and positive in one´s life helps nurture a positive mental and emotional outlook that takes the focus off of what one is supposedly lacking and it can help balance out those moments that seem to have gone wrong.
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