If you want to get your kids to care about others in the community, here are some easy ways to get them involved in service:
• Have them draw pictures and make cards that you take to residents in nursing homes.
• Give them a piggy bank that they can use to save money from their allowance. Each month, they can choose a charity that’s important to them and give away some of their savings.
• Visit a children’s hospital together and play with some of the children who are undergoing serious treatments.
• Ask an elderly neighbor if they need help with any household chores. Your family can offer to come over for an hour a month and help clean or take care of any of their needs.
• Let them adopt and care for a seeing eye dog and explain how this helps people who are blind.
• Bake chocolate chip cookies together and give a plate to new neighbors that are just moving into your neighborhood.
There are countless ways that kids can make a big impact and help others. This is a great way to help them grow into the kind of caring and thoughtful teenagers and adults you want them to become.
