Giving Back: 10 Ways for You and Your Family to Harvest and Help Othersgiving back • my world • Mom It Forward Mondays • tips for giving back
Service—This week's Season of Service challenge is based on the word "harvest" and involves opportunities to help others by harvesting. While that word generally refers to the harvest of food, and thus to the resolution of the problem of hunger, it can involve other, broader issues as well.…
How to Teach Children About Poverty and Hungermy world • raising giving children • parenting • ages and stages
How do you teach your young child about poverty and hunger when he has a full plate of yummy food in front of him, is well-dressed, and comfortable? You don't. You can't. Yet, I yearn for my child to be aware of these things so that the seeds of compassion…
Motherhood: Nurture Service in Your Lifegiving back • my world • Mom It Forward Mondays • tips for giving back
This week's Season of Service challenge involves serving by nurturing, two verbs that naturally go together. Nurturing is an inherent part of motherhood, something celebrated this month on Mother's Day and discussed tomorrow during #GNO sponsored by BabyCenter. Here are some simple ways you can nurture not only…
Homelessness and World Hunger: How You Can Make a DifferenceRecently, we brought another mother's child with us on an adventure to see the Blue Angels at the annual Air Show in Fort Worth. Taking along one that's not your own can be challenging, especially if they don't fit into your family dynamic. And we knew it would be that…
Feeding the Hungry: Season of Service Challenge 1my world • Mom It Forward Mondays
I am a firm believer that charity begins at home. How can one even think of hungry people in Africa, for instance, without first, and perhaps more easily, thinking of those people you know who are in need? This week is the first week in Mom It Forward's Season of…
