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Should our children be grateful to us?

“I hope, I don’t know if it’s feasible, that my children will never have family restrictions. That I will believe until the end that children are created for us and not for themselves, that it is the most selfish act in the world. (…) In previous generations, you had to thank your parents a lot. I hope I never ask my children to say ‘thank you’.”announced to the newspaper in 2009 Marie Claire actress Marina Fois, then mother of a 4-year-old boy and another 6-month-old. A desire shared by many parents, but sometimes, points to a feeling that our offspring are decidedly ungrateful to us. But do they owe only us? “Zero debt”.exclaims Elizabeth Bramey, clinical psychologist, author thanks mom And thanks dad (Youth Threshold). “For there to be gratitude, the child must realize that life is a gift. But if he is good, he feels entitled to live and even feels that…

Source: Le Figaro

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