Parents teach their children many valuable lessons while they are in their safekeeping, but the most important lesson is gratitude.
Grateful people understand their blessings, appreciate their gifts, and enjoy living and loving.
Since we teach our children to take their concerns to God and to have a relationship with Him, we must also teach them to thank Him when prayers are answered or guidance is provided. Each and every day, God receives requests from us for protection, health, rest, strength, guidance, love, peace, comfort, justice, and truth. God also hears our prayers for material objects and earthly possessions, deliverance from our problems, or intercession for others or ourselves. God is always there for us and knows our problems before we know them ourselves. This unique form of thanks, praising God for answered prayer, should not be confused with other niceties or customary methods of appreciation.