How to Teach Kids About Charity
Among the lessons every parent should teach their children is the importance of taking care of others. This is best done by actively involving your child-even a young child-in making charitable donations and doing charitable work.
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Require that your child donate an old toy for every new toy he or she is given. Make a trip to a local charity that accepts toys part of your child's birthday activities.
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Organize a clothing drive in your neighborhood and have your child donate clothes he or she has outgrown.
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Take your child to the local library with an armload of books to donate. Later, you can visit the library to find these books on the shelf and, if you can, check inside the cover to see how many times the books have been borrowed.
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Allow your child to choose a canned or boxed food item to donate to the food bank when you go to the grocery store. If there's a donation box at the store, let your child place the donation in the box. Or you can let you child bring the items into the food bank using his or her wagon.
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Help your child and his or her friends perform a play or sing at a local nursing home.
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Buy a large bag of dog or cat food and go with your child to the animal shelter to donate it. If the shelter allows, let your child place a dog biscuit or cat treat in each cage for the animals to enjoy.
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Take your child along as you check in on elderly or sick neighbors and let him or her help you do errands for them such as raking leaves, cooking a meal or delivering flowers.
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Encourage your child to set aside part of his or her allowance to give to charity. Help him or her choose the charity that will receive the money.
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Tips & Warnings
The best way to teach a child about being charitable is to let them see you being charitable.
Don't do it for your child. Your child will learn nothing about being charitable if he or she doesn't actually do the work of collecting food, cleaning out closets or going through old toys and books.
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merrileehenk
Dec 27, 2009
Great ideas. Thanks for sharing them. In the spirit of Able, it would be great to have your child donate their FAVORITE food item for another child to enjoy. Please subscribe to me as well. I would enjoy discussing ideas with you.
