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Mom of three CANCELS all Christmas presents for her ‘entitled’ and ‘ungrateful’ kids to teach them a lesson

David Mccormack for MailOnline

Dec. 5, 2014

Lisa Henderson, from Hurricane, Utah, is using this coming holiday season to teach her boys that it is better to give than receive
She and husband John have canceled presents, Santa and stockings for Caleb, 11, Davis, 8, and Beckham, 5
'They had been acting up quite a bit, and weren't very grateful for the things they had,' she said
Although the boys were initially very upset, Lisa says she is proud at how they have quickly learned to embrace the joy of giving

A mother-of-three has taken the drastic step of cancelling Christmas for her young sons after becoming exasperated by their disrespectful behavior and unchecked sense of entitlement.

Lisa Henderson, from Hurricane, Utah, is using this coming holiday season to teach her boys - Caleb, 11, Davis, 8, and Beckham, 5 – that it is better to give than receive.

The stay-at-home-mom, 36, recently wrote about the plan on her Over the Big Moon blog and says it was really her husband, 34-year-old John, who came up with the idea.'

‘They had been acting up quite a bit, and weren't very grateful for the things they had,’ she told GMA.

On her blog she explained that while the family weren't cancelling ‘putting up decorations, celebrating the birth of our Savior, or any of our other heart-warming traditions’, but they would be going without ‘presents, Santa, and stockings.’

Lisa and John felt their kids had lost sight of the fact that gifts aren’t an automatic entitlement and should be earned through good behavior.

‘Our kids have been acting so ungrateful lately. They expect so much even when their behavior is extremely disrespectful,’ she wrote.

‘We gave them good warning, either it was time for their behavior to change or there would be consequences.

'We patiently worked with them for several months and guess what, very little changed.’

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