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Donations: Simple Ways to Give to Charity and to Those in Need

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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 They go through their closets and pull out old coats, jackets, scarves, and outdated fashions to make space for all the new things that Santa left under the Christmas tree.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 …

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SOS 05 Week 25 Laugh Small Happiness: Laughter is the Best Medicine

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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

  1. Tickle your toddler the next time you’re at the grocery store. Of

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SOS Week 24 Be Kind Small Good Manners: 10 Simple Ways to be Kind

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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

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sos-33-week 20-Plan-small Plan Service Into Your Life

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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

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Kids in Circle The Manner of Random Acts of Kindness

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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

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adventidea1 Family Holiday Traditions: Making a New Year’s Resolution Advent Calendar

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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

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Giving-Charity-Spread Joy-Season of Service 10 Bite-Size Ideas for Spreading Joy This Week

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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;…

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Make Today Unexpected

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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

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10 Ways to Brighten Someone’s Day

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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!

  1. Run up to a loved one and give him or her an enthusiastic bear

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Ten Ways to Strengthen Your Relationships This Week

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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!

  1. Write a list

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