24/11/2015
Want your kids to be kind, not as a result of nagging or lecturing, but because they genuinely care about other people?
Here's one way to do it: Help them get their hands dirty!
As part of our "Raising Giving Kids" programe for this term,,
our Zivi Parenting Team has
been weighing in with all sorts of ideas for teaching children about kindness — and a number of them involve leaving the comfort
zone and doing community service for strangers In our "Hands That Give" campaign We've compiled some of these
insights and tips towards helping you work with us. Please feel free to join in this ongoing
conversation posting your contributions and staying, staying connected to ZIVI Parenting updates on our Hands That Give Campagin..
If you have other ideas for how to raise kind kids that GIVE please say the word. We want to hear them! Here's ours!
1. "Teach them to serve rather than be served." ( Amy McCready)
"One of the best ways to give kids practice in real-world kindness is to serve others. Get the whole family involved to serve people in need.
Find opportunities to lend a hand with any place of worship, local scout troops, Habitat for
Humanity, animal shelters, nursing homes, even the guidance department at your child's school. When kids realise the impact they can make by serving and being kind to others, you begin to foster a servant's heart in them, and that's a beautiful thing."