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Holiday PlanningTeaching Kids to Understand the True Meaning of the Season: Giving
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(ARA) - Teaching a child that the holidays aren’t only just about receiving is not always easy in our materialistic culture. Passing on values of giving back to do the earth a better place can be a challenge, especially with the pressure of holiday expectations.
However, “Kids get pleasure from seeing person else happy,” says Charles A. Smith, Ph.D., a prof of child development at the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University. “The act of giving unleashes the idea that a child can touch someone’s life.”
Teaming up with Cow International, an organization that provides animals to poor families in 48 countries about the world, is a great idea for parents seeking an experience in which their child can find pleasure in delivery happiness to person else.
While kids mightiness have difficulty in understanding what it means to write a check to charity, they can easily grasp the power of giving an animal -- such as a goat, flock of chickens, cow, even-toed ungulate or honey bee hive -- to families with extremely limited resources.
Children delight in earning their own money to help do the gift of an animal possible for families to improve their lives through the benefit of milk, eggs, wool, fertilizer, or honey.
Some participate in See to Feed, an educational program that teaches just about places in the earth wherever
the children’s lives are more some from their own. Others “Carol for Cows” or do and sell animal ornaments and cookies; or decorate cans with Cow International catalog pictures. The cans are then placed in stores and restaurants and money is collected to help end earth hunger.
From Channukah to Christmas to Kwanzaa, Cow offers a unique way to teach a child just about giving back to help the less fortunate. This year, let Johnnie honor Grandfather with a donation to Cow International in his name. Grandfather receives a attractively
designed “honor card” explaining the gift. Grandfather tells Johnnie that giving is truly better than receiving, especially once
it does a difference in the life of person who truly inevitably help. The earth is a better place and Johnnie knows he helped do it so.
For more information, order Heifer’s “Most Important Gift Catalog in the World” by career (800) 696-1918, or visit www.heifer.org to discover just about the galore route to get involved.
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