MicroGiving offers a number of opportunities to support charities for children. In addition to providing charitable resources we encourage most importantly that children themselves take action and volunteer in the field of charity.
This post aims to encourage you as a parent to teach your children the importance of charity and volunteer service as an enriching part of everyday life. Childhood years are the most formative and what we teach our children now will have a tremendous impact on their future. Just as we eat, sleep, and breathe — charity for children should be an everyday part of our function, focus, and fervor.
The following tips are ways that you can prepare, shape, program, and wire your child for charity!
Encourage Charity for Children by being an example
Teach your children that there are many ways they can give to charity. Volunteering and giving of one’s time to help others in need is often one of the most effective ways to pay it forward to charities. The most impactful people are the one’s that volunteer their ‘time’. Volunteer work is a more personal and expressive way to show you care about helping children, families, communities, and the world. Illustrate to your kids that they can make a big difference in the world, that they can do something to help others, and their little hands can make change!
There are countless online resources that provide great volunteer ideas for kids and charity opportunities for children to get involved. You might also be interested in locating local places to volunteer in your community.
Encourage your kids to ‘give a little bit’ to Children’s Charity
Explain to your children that they are extremely fortunate to have food, shelter, and clothes when millions of children across the world are homeless, dying, and in great need. Encourage your children to set aside a small amount of money, even if it’s a few coins, to support charities for children. Explain to them that one doesn’t need much to help others in need. They can still make a big difference in a small way.
And don’t forget to give a little bit too!
Don’t allow your financial situation to ever hold you back from supporting charities for children, or any charitable cause for that matter. Apologies for sounding cliché but, “monkey see monkey do” holds much truth!! Teach by example and support charities by whatever means your unique situation permits. If you can’t donate much, at least afford a few dollars to support a worthy charitable cause. If you’re stingy, your children could very well turn out to be stingy too—and nobody likes a Scrooooooge!
Be charismatic about Charity for Children!
Attitude is contagious. Your enthusiasm will influence your child’s perception about giving to charity. Explain to your kids that giving feels good! The more we bombard our kids with positive messages about charitable giving: the more likely they will adopt an altruistic attitude. In doing this, you plant a seed at a very early stage in a child’s youth which will encourage them to grow into the kind of adults that will someday make a difference in the world.
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Lets train our children to be strong and impactful human beings, with good character, and with a powerful altruistic spirit to live in pursuit of changing the lives of others. The best way to truly pay it forward is through your children. Let’s not forget they are the future…
How do you give back?
What are some ways that you encourage your children to get involved in charity?
If you don’t have children, what are some ways that you can get involved with charities for children, or inspire young people to take action?
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