Comments on: Serve Your Community as a Family this Christmas

By: Tesa

Tesa — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:01:24 +0000

Kids are always willing to give back and share, especially for causes that they see locally. There are so many great ways to give back and earn the good karma this holiday season. Giving is good and good for you. A simple way is helping out Feeding American and dosomething.org as they tackle hunger this season. Even superstar hip-hop artist Nelly joined in on the fun. Start a canned food drive in your area! It’s such a simple way to give back and spread the holiday joy at your school or in your community. Find out how at dosomething.org/tacklehunger!

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By: kathy

kathy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:34:58 +0000

Really good ideas here. I concur with Valerie. Your local woman’s shelter is one of the best places to donate goods and/or volunteer time. My sister’s family mourned the murder of her husband’s niece in late August because she did not have a shelter to turn to that accepted both mom and children. Now her children have no parents and deal daily with the trauma of witnessing their parent’s deaths. This happens to good people – I never thought that a tragedy like this could be so close to those I care about. Your donation to a domestic violence shelter could prevent a similar tragedy and bring comfort to families in crisis when they should be celebrating holidays as a family.

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By: gina

gina — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:25:21 +0000

This year I came up with the idea of donating to our local Ronald McDonald House (they house parents/families who have sick children who are hospitalized so that they can be closer to them. Some of these people live 2 or more hrs away from the hospital). I sent out a nice letter to our families and friends this week inviting them to join us this holiday in donating to our charity and if so, to do it in place of exchanging gifts with us this yr. (If your house is like ours (2 Oct. birthdays) then you realize the kids already have a surplus of clothes and toys. There are Ronald McDonald Houses all over the US. You can find yours on the web and print their
Wishlist. We will collect all donations at Thanksgiving. This is our first year doing this and I have to say my husband and I already have a renewed attitude about the holidays. . .it just feels like “this is what it is all about.” We are going to do something like this every yr now so we can teach our kids the true meaning of Thanksgiving and Christmas.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:56:42 +0000

wow- these are amazing suggestions. I’m so excited to try some of these with my family this holiday season. Thanks so much!!

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:20:03 +0000

These are great. Especially the extra large tip idea. As a former waitress I know how hard these people work, and are often disrespected. You’re right, adults need the reminder to give as well.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:54:07 +0000

At the holidays, our synagogue organizes a slew of family-oriented helping projects, from visiting nursing homes to making a latke party at a homeless shelter (I am a firm believer that holiday food is entirely non-sectarian!) to packing and delivering Christmas dinners to homebound seniors.

Year round, we are involved in Family-to-Family (http://family-to-family.org), through which we send a box of groceries every month to a needy rural family. My sons enjoy helping with the shopping and (especially) the packing, and my elder boy often encloses a few original artworks (dinosaur drawings anyone?) and some gently used books.

Family-to-Family also sponsors a birthday box project specifically for kids which could easily be adapted to holiday significance. The basic gist is that kid party guests bring a gently-used toy or book and a shoe box; the hosts provide art supplies for decorating and wrapping the items, and one of the party activities is creating a gift package for a kid in need. More detail and explanation here: http://family-to-family.org/giving_partyK.htm

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