I love my ungrateful child dammit.....

Alright ,lets start off by easing some of your minds, this is in no way a pro- ungrateful children blog. It is not a blog about how we should support our children and encourage them no matter what the little jackasses do. It is however a blog about the one thing that all parent's (even me) seem to want to gloss over when talking about their presh -presh little ankle biters. Children are ungrateful, MY child is ungrateful...there I said it...Now when she is 18 and knows everything she will look back at this blog and blame me for why her (probably awesome) life ,"like totally sucks omg". I am sure that the level of ungratefulness varies from child to child, and those with stricter parents , lie better and more convincingly . I happen to be TOTALLY FRIGGIN' BLESSED by having a 10 year old daughter that has THE WORST lie face ever....! Let me preface this by saying my daughter is kind , loving ,sweet ,smart and doesn't have a mean bone in her body. Yet when I speak to her about being grateful for what she has, and try to let her know that like 70% of the world lives in abject poverty, I see the eyes glaze over...I see her drift away ...I  see her being grateful she isn't one of those children living in abject poverty....cuz that would suck. See this isn't the kind of grateful I am looking for! I want her to recognize the pain and uncertainty that most of her fellow humans must endure every day. I want her to spend a few minutes of her day and really feel something!!!! I love my daughter so much and you all can just get right off your high horse thinking I haven't taught my daughter to be thankful correctly...I am a GIRLSCOUT LEADER YO! I  have tried...I'm resourceful and clever,college educated even!
      I have come to a startling conclusion, children are different these days, and so are we as parents,because society is different! I may joke but I am confident that as she grows older she will develop these qualities . I was a different breed of child...My parents had a subscription to national geographic that I would read cover to cover each month. When we watched sitcoms those people had real problems, every night we saw families who faced racial tension, poverty, abuse, divorced parents and bullying. some bad and disturbing shit went down !  Now the Disney channel makes shows about kids who live in extravagently decorated mansions, families who have 5 kids and don't struggle, the children are snotty and vapid little brats that spend more time sneering at their parents and twirling their hair extensions, then facing real life situations.
     It's a different world my friends, do you think our parents felt the same way?( For god sakes don't ask  them ,you know what the answer will be , and you could do something productive with the half hour of your life that speech will take up lol.) But I won't give up! I will keep trying to drill these lessons into my daughters beautiful and sometimes vacant brain!  I have a plan....BWAHAHAHAHA...I intend to immerse her in the nitty gritty of everyday life this year. It is one thing to TALK about something and another to actually DO IT!
we are going to be visiting a soup kitchen this year, and hopefully volunteering at a local center of concern or salvation army. I am going to introduce her to the concept of SERVICE.....!!!! Hopefully by this time next year , the child who actually complained regularly that we didn't stay at Disney world long enough last year ( *HEAD EXPLODES*)  will be a bit more aware of how her fellow earthlings live.I will be happy with small steps , small glimmers of awareness, small concessions. Sometimes I feel like my daughter is 10 going on 3 yrs. old, and sometimes 23yrs old....It's a new age people ,an extreme age where children feel forced to fill a mold that is even smaller and more confined then ever before....Let them have their gadgets if you must, or the $100 boots, but dammit at least TRY to make sure they see how lucky they are to have them. TRY!