Kids Giving Back

One of the hardest concepts to understand as a child is that the world doesn't revolve around you.  My friends and I decided that the best way to teach our children this very important fact of life is through community service acts.  Our eight children get together monthly and work on a project that will help others in our community.  Each month, one of the kids comes up with an idea and the other seven help make the idea become a reality.  

For our first month, we collected can goods and delivered cooked meals to the local food bank.  The following month, we created and decorated cookie mixes in a jar.  We sold them to help raise money for a local boy fighting cancer.  This month we will be making bracelets at a local store and donating them the children at our county's hospital.   Next month, when the weather is a little less wet, we will be on our plastic gloves and cleaning up our community. 

Although, these services may not seem like much, they are a huge deal to those we reach and I am so proud of our kids and how they are learning to think of others besides themselves.

  Do you have any ideas for children's community service projects?  Grab a latte,  put up your feet, and join the discussion!