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January is typically a month when people want to get organized. They go through their closets and pull out old coats, jackets, scarves, and outdated fashions to make space for all the new things that Santa left under the Christmas tree. They also go through their cupboards and donate canned food for annual food drives.
What do you do with your unwanted items? Chances are you have donated something to someone at some point in your life. Have …
Happiness: Laughter is the Best Medicinemy world • Mom It Forward Mondays
This week’s Season of Service challenge involves helping others laugh, out loud. A man named George Gordon Byron once said that laughter is “cheap medicine.” Let us all be inexpensive doctors then.
10 Tips to Help Others LOL
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Good Manners: 10 Simple Ways to be Kindmy world • Mom It Forward Mondays
This week’s Season of Service challenge is perhaps the easiest yet: be kind. Aesop, the Greek fable writer, once said: No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Let’s all be brave this week, reaching out with kindness. This challenge is inspired by Chuggington…, the new line of
Plan Service Into Your Lifemy world • Mom It Forward Mondays
…This week’s Season of Service challenge focuses on planning. Think of ways that you can serve your family, your neighbors, your community, your countrymen, and your fellow humans across the globe by planning. This can mean preparing an event, helping someone prepare for the accomplishment of a goal, or just
The Manner of Random Acts of Kindnessmy world • bettering communities
…The last week of February was Random Acts of Kindness week. How fantastic is that? Where manners are concerned, everyday could be a Random Act of Kindness day because that’s simply what manners are about. Personally, I think people have started shying away from traditional etiquette because it seems like
Family Holiday Traditions: Making a New Year’s Resolution Advent Calendar…
Christmas is over. But the holiday spirit is what brings families closer together, so why not make the holidays last all year?
To keep the spirit of giving alive for my family, we decided to build a New Year’s Resolution Advent Calender. The great part is that you can find
10 Bite-Size Ideas for Spreading Joy This Weekmy world • Mom It Forward Mondays
We’re down to the wire, folks. Christmas is just days away, and while the fun may be mounting, so might the stress. It’s very easy to get caught up in rushing from one store to the next, one holiday party to another. Taking time to serve others is still important;…
Do you ever feel that one day runs into the next without a lot of difference between them? This week’s Summer of Service challenge, sponsored by Famous Footwear…, is about making this week—starting with today!—unexpected. Here are 11 ways to do that. If you have more ideas, please share
This week’s Summer of Service challenge, sponsored by Crayola, is to brighten someone’s day by doing one or more of the following creative things. If you have more ideas, please share them in the comments!
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This week’s Summer of Service challenge, sponsored by Crayola, is all about building and strengthening your relationships and helping your children to do the same by doing one or more of the following creative things. If you have more ideas, please share them in the comments!
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Ride a bike or walk to a close destination to which you would normally drive.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
