Mistakes. All of us make them. But not all of us react the same way to them.
You see, some of us, being the perfectionists that we are, tend to beat ourselves up over our mistakes. “I shouldn’t have done that,” you think to yourself. Or, “I was so stupid. I wish I did things differently,” you lament.
Can gratitude help kids be more generous? In a recent study, Lan Nguyen Chaplin and her colleagues randomly assigned 11 to 17 year olds to write daily journals about gratitude or the day’s activities. At the end of two weeks, a researcher gave the adolescents ten $1 bills for being a part of the study and told them they could keep all the money or make an anonymous donation of any size (by putting the money in a locked box after the researcher left the room). The young participants also filled out surveys measuring how materialistic they were before and after journaling for two weeks.
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This is Day 11 of the 14-Day Gratitude Challenge where you practice gratitude for 14 days. This challenge is now over but you can still do the tasks in your own time! Visit the overview page for all Gratitude Challenge tasks and posts.
Enjoy!