Comments on: Teaching Your Children The Meaning Of Thanksgiving http://justparentingadvice.com/teaching-your-children-the-meaning-of-thanksgiving/ Smart parents get help here. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:07:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Miss Mona http://justparentingadvice.com/teaching-your-children-the-meaning-of-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Miss Mona Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:51:18 +0000 http://justparentingadvice.com/?p=1256#comment-332 @Wendy Young: Love putting heads together for cool ideas. Awesome! Thanks for the inspiration. @SkyeGiggles: Thanks for your comment! Your Thanksgiving Tree idea is really unique. Love it! Kinda like Wendy's idea of having the family gratitude book/journal, but it's in tree form up on the wall with fall-colored leaves. Cool how it's so interactive. Have you ever taken a picture of one of your Thanksgiving Trees and posted it on your blog? I'd love to see it if you have. @Wendy Young: Love putting heads together for cool ideas. Awesome! Thanks for the inspiration.

@SkyeGiggles: Thanks for your comment! Your Thanksgiving Tree idea is really unique. Love it! Kinda like Wendy’s idea of having the family gratitude book/journal, but it’s in tree form up on the wall with fall-colored leaves. Cool how it’s so interactive. Have you ever taken a picture of one of your Thanksgiving Trees and posted it on your blog? I’d love to see it if you have.

]]> By: skyegiggles http://justparentingadvice.com/teaching-your-children-the-meaning-of-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-331 skyegiggles Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:38:34 +0000 http://justparentingadvice.com/?p=1256#comment-331 During the month of November we work as a family on a thanksgiving tree. I cut open a brown paper grocery bag and hang it on the wall (next to the dinner table) to resemble a tree trunk. I then cut out a stack of leaves, in fall colors, and put them in an envelope taped to the wall under the tree. Every day at dinner we discuss something from that day each of us was thankful for, write it on a leaf, and hang it on our tree. This is a great discussion starter, and offers a visual reminder of all the blessings in our lives. The kids even go in during the day and fill out a leaf to hang up if something strikes them. It makes a fun fall display, a great craft activity if you let your kids make their own leaf cut outs, a good discussion starter, and a great way to build an attitude of gratitude. During the month of November we work as a family on a thanksgiving tree. I cut open a brown paper grocery bag and hang it on the wall (next to the dinner table) to resemble a tree trunk. I then cut out a stack of leaves, in fall colors, and put them in an envelope taped to the wall under the tree. Every day at dinner we discuss something from that day each of us was thankful for, write it on a leaf, and hang it on our tree. This is a great discussion starter, and offers a visual reminder of all the blessings in our lives. The kids even go in during the day and fill out a leaf to hang up if something strikes them. It makes a fun fall display, a great craft activity if you let your kids make their own leaf cut outs, a good discussion starter, and a great way to build an attitude of gratitude.

]]> By: Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD http://justparentingadvice.com/teaching-your-children-the-meaning-of-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:15:05 +0000 http://justparentingadvice.com/?p=1256#comment-330 Miss Mona, So lovely of you to share some of Kidlutions' ideas here on your post! I love how you have expanded those ideas and thoughts! See...two brains are ALWAYS better than one. Have a splendiferous day! Wendy Miss Mona,

So lovely of you to share some of Kidlutions’ ideas here on your post! I love how you have expanded those ideas and thoughts! See…two brains are ALWAYS better than one.

Have a splendiferous day!

Wendy

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