Comments on: Teaching Children to Give—Involving Them in Charitable Programs http://momitforward.com/teaching-children-to-give%e2%80%94involving-them-in-charitable-programs Wed, 23 May 2012 22:31:09 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Carrie Hill http://momitforward.com/teaching-children-to-give%e2%80%94involving-them-in-charitable-programs/comment-page-1#comment-26383 Carrie Hill Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:43:12 +0000 http://momitforward.com/?p=3201#comment-26383 My 3rd grade daughter was recently featured in the local newspaper three times for a dental hygiene drive she initiated in her elementary school. She chose service as her talent for the school talent show, and organized an entire drive, with papers going home to parents at the school, a contest with smoothies for the winner (from a student's parent owned business), as well as deciding to work with the United Way in determining who to give the collected supplies to. After she created her tri-fold, and worked with local Access Parnterships Free dental outreach program for a school presentation on oral hygiene, she had collected over 300+ items. The United Way came and gave each of the children a certificate for service and the winning class had smoothies. A local dental outreach clinic, called to invite my eight year old daughter to the formal open house of their grand opening night, as she donated the only supplies thus far to help over 144 individuals being seen over the past 3 months, who had never received dental care. The administration recognized her contribution and had their picture taken with her for the paper. She was then invited to help organize more drives for another clinic opening up in a different city. I was so proud of her choice to help give of herself for the benefit of others. She said,"When kids aren't healthy, they don't smile. When they don't smile, they don't feel good about themselves. If we help kids be healthier who don't have help, they will smile more and be happy!" I couldn't say it better myself! Thanks to all those wonderful examples of service out there, modeling the behavior for our future generations. Our kids are paying attention. My 3rd grade daughter was recently featured in the local newspaper three times for a dental hygiene drive she initiated in her elementary school. She chose service as her talent for the school talent show, and organized an entire drive, with papers going home to parents at the school, a contest with smoothies for the winner (from a student’s parent owned business), as well as deciding to work with the United Way in determining who to give the collected supplies to. After she created her tri-fold, and worked with local Access Parnterships Free dental outreach program for a school presentation on oral hygiene, she had collected over 300+ items. The United Way came and gave each of the children a certificate for service and the winning class had smoothies.

A local dental outreach clinic, called to invite my eight year old daughter to the formal open house of their grand opening night, as she donated the only supplies thus far to help over 144 individuals being seen over the past 3 months, who had never received dental care. The administration recognized her contribution and had their picture taken with her for the paper. She was then invited to help organize more drives for another clinic opening up in a different city. I was so proud of her choice to help give of herself for the benefit of others.
She said,”When kids aren’t healthy, they don’t smile. When they don’t smile, they don’t feel good about themselves. If we help kids be healthier who don’t have help, they will smile more and be happy!”

I couldn’t say it better myself! Thanks to all those wonderful examples of service out there, modeling the behavior for our future generations. Our kids are paying attention.

]]> By: angie http://momitforward.com/teaching-children-to-give%e2%80%94involving-them-in-charitable-programs/comment-page-1#comment-11289 angie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:48:22 +0000 http://momitforward.com/?p=3201#comment-11289 This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing this opportunity to give with us. This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing this opportunity to give with us.

]]> By: Execumama http://momitforward.com/teaching-children-to-give%e2%80%94involving-them-in-charitable-programs/comment-page-1#comment-11217 Execumama Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:15:42 +0000 http://momitforward.com/?p=3201#comment-11217 Thank you for this information. I totally agree with the responsibility to help our children understand that they CAN make a difference with simple gestures and acts of giving. My 5 and 3 year old daughters are currently doing a soccer cleats drive to donate 100 pairs of used children's cleats to a football (soccer) club in Kingston, Jamaica. They understand that they can simply get new cleats as they outgrow theirs, but in many places, children play barefoot, and not by choice. I'd be happy share the link if you know of anyone who may have cleats to donate. I wont do it here w/out permission. Great info again - thanks! Thank you for this information. I totally agree with the responsibility to help our children understand that they CAN make a difference with simple gestures and acts of giving. My 5 and 3 year old daughters are currently doing a soccer cleats drive to donate 100 pairs of used children’s cleats to a football (soccer) club in Kingston, Jamaica. They understand that they can simply get new cleats as they outgrow theirs, but in many places, children play barefoot, and not by choice. I’d be happy share the link if you know of anyone who may have cleats to donate. I wont do it here w/out permission.

Great info again – thanks!

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