I’ve seen a lot of talk lately in my online circles about how to teach children about the value of giving back. Some great suggestions have come up, like volunteering time at a soup kitchen, setting aside some allowance for donation, etc.
Last week I tried a new service that is a great way to teach kids around the time of their birthdays. GiftAround is a service to let you pick presents with your kids (for their birthday party) and have guests contribute to them (instead of getting a bunch of crap that nobody wants). The big teaching moment here is that you can set aside up to 25% of the contributions to go to a charity. I loved sitting down and looking through the list of kid-focused charities and choosing the one we all wanted. This was a great way to explain each of these non-profits, and letting my child decide where he wanted his money to go.
Highly recommended.
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