Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World: How One Family Learned That Saying No Can Lead to Life's Biggest Yes
Written by Kristen Welch
Narrated by Meredith Mitchell
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About this audiobook
Kristen Welch knows firsthand that it's not that easy. In fact, she's found out that when you say yes too often, it's not only hard on your peace of mind and your wallet-it actually puts your kids at long-term risk. In Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World, Kristen shares the ups and downs in her own family's journey of discovering why it's healthiest not to give one's kids everything. Teaching them the difference between "want" and "need" is the first step in the right direction. With many practical tips and anecdotes, she shares how to say the ultimate yes as a family by bringing up faith-filled kids who will love God, serve others, and grow into hardworking, fulfilled, and successful adults.
It's never too late to raise grateful kids. Get ready to cultivate a spirit of genuine appreciation and create a Jesus-centered home in which your kids don't just say-but mean!-"thank you" for everything they have.
Kristen Welch
Kristen Welch is a mom just like you and me--only funnier. Her blog, We Are THAT Family (www.wearethatfamily.com) is read by over 70,000 women a month, who enjoy her often-hilarious, always-honest reflections on motherhood, marriage, and Christian life. In 2010, she went to Kenya as a blogger for Compassion International, and regularly contributes to online magazine Blissfully Domestic and (In)Courage, an inspirational blog for women. She lives in Texas with her husband and three children.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Starts off okay if you can stomach all the bible quotes but once we got to bashing people for choosing what to do with their own bodies I was ready to switch off, and the homophobia was the final straw.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Started out okay and quickly turned very small. You sound like an uneducated bigot. Bye
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book is good but the audio didn’t work for me. It was broken audio.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Sadly, the compromise of wanting to be relatable is what turned me off, and when I heard her saying that in their family they are not holy and they are irreverent...as if that was something to boast about, I just had to stop listening. Yes, no one is perfect, but Christ is our aim! And Scripture calls us to holiness, and that is the life of a believer...the ongoing pursuit of holiness! To make light of that in the aim of being relatable is to compromise on Truth and God’s Perfect Holy Word!!!
“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.””
1 Peter 1:14-16
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”Galatians 2:20
I also had red flags popping in the beginning when she mentions that her desire was not her her children to be happy but to be grateful. Both miss the mark! True happiness and true gratitude is only possible with a true understanding of The Gospel and what Christ has done for us! When THAT is internalized to its full extent (how it impacts every relationship we have...how the only thing we deserve is hell, because we have all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God-Romans 3:23) then real, lasting gratitude comes, joy comes, worship comes! What I desire for my children more than anything else in this world, is for them to be known by Christ and become true worshippers! When that day comes, they will by God’s Grace realize how they were never entitled to anything but hell, yet “...God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:4-10 - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved it! Had really good things to think about. I liked that she says find what works for you.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing. Every parent should read it! Such wonderful truths and reminders!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing!!
I blessed to have come across this book! The best! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Heard about this book in our small group yesterday. Listened to it on a work trip last night and today. Good content. Practical advice. Actionable steps to help guide you along the way. The Biblical principles are timeless.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great read with very practical tips. Many relatable examples too.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hands down best parenting book I have ever read/listened to and I’ve read many. She doesn’t give you a fix all but challenges us as parents in how we might raise children that love God and love others.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Good insight about cultivating gratefulness in yourself and those around you, especially kids. Had some nice anecdotal stories. 2 stars because the book has too many blatant plugs (i.e David Platt, Max Lucaido, etc.) and is blatantly transphobic.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kristen Welch offers thoughtful parenting advice through humor, examples, and Scripture. She points us to building a Christ-centered home and is real about how she hasn't arrived yet. Her book gave me great ideas and lots of hope and courage to live and parent counterculturally.