I couldn't believe my ears. Eleven months before my wife and I surprised our kids with an amazing Christmas gift. We gave them Disney annual passes. They flipped out, and we had a blast. However, in the eleventh month of that annual pass we told our kids we were going to Disney. My son's response, "Disney again? Do we have to?" I couldn't believe it. I explained to both my kids that going to Disney at all was a privilege many kids would never get the chance to do at all, let alone multiple times in a year. It was an opportunity to explain to them how important it is to be grateful. That was the last time I heard either of them complain. We let our passes expire a month later without renewing and my kids talk about how much they miss it. Gratitude is a talent and one that must be refined. We must not allow our children to grow up entitled or spoiled. Kids who are cut off from the richness of lives defined by grateful hearts, service, joy, sacrificial love a...
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