Volunteering With Your Kids

LeeAndra

LeeAndra

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I just signed Ellie (who is 6 1/2) and me up for a volunteer day with our church. I keep saying that we need to help others but I haven't actually SHOWN her. :p

Anyways, our church has a community-wide volunteer project every quarter where they send a bunch of groups out to different places for a few hours on a Saturday morning.

I'm such a good mom that I even signed us up to work at the Humane Society (she is obsessed with animals & has been since she was a babe) although we will be doing mostly outdoors things and not playing with the cats and dogs. :p

Do any of you regularly volunteer with your kids? It doesn't have to be in a religious context, either. What do you do? Have they responded well to it?
 
I tried to volunteer at my son's school for the Earth Day activity the other day, but, the positions were filled up already. So I got to enjoy the time instead of doing something :p
Maybe next time. :D
 
When Cheyanne was young we started volunteering for the Special Olympics that are held at the university in our city and it's something that she has kept up with on her own to this day. In the summers when we lived at our summer home which was in a very small town and we would volunteer to help with cooking the once a week free meal that the churches held for anyone who needed a free meal (all of the churches in town rotated so 4 nights a week there was always a free meal going on). We're not religious in the least but as a community member we were welcomed and I always felt that it taught Cheyanne diversity and tolerance - that we all don't have to believe in the same things in order to be friends and help others.
 
Eden volunteers in our church nursery and really likes it. Actually, she just moved up to the pre-schoolers. We used to help once a month in our city soup kitchen. I would bring craft and art supplies and after we were done serving we would play with the kids and let moms and dads just relax. One thing I want to do more, but they always have a long volunteer list, is working in this food distribution warehouse. Feeds hundreds of Detroit families. The boys don't do as much, but that's my fault.
 
Rachel's Girl Scout troop volunteers monthly at an area food pantry. Her school also has weekend work days at the OKC Food Bank.
She has done clean-up at local parks...we've hauled out countless bags of trash from them.
We are signing up to volunteer with the local Animal Shelter over the summer.

I volunteer weekly at her school. I have worked in the nursery at church for a few years, although I am not doing it right now. Our local animal shelter is always looking for volunteers, so I am happy to walk dogs, play with cats, etc. They also look for volunteers to take photos of the animals that are up for adoption...the better the photo, the better the chance at getting them adopted. I am signing up to start doing that this summer.
 
I do. We really enjoy volunteering together.

Our main gig is with a secular organization that supplies gap items to people who find themselves homeless and/or in need. We gather donations and give away things like personal hygiene items, travel size toiletries, new underwear/socks, sunscreen, first aid kits and on and on. It's been eye-opening for them to have personal contact with people that are often treated as if they don't exist.

We regularly volunteer for community clean ups and with volunteer fire departments. My daughter is heavily involved in JROTC and they do a ton of community service regularly as well. My girls are great at joining in when a cause is meaningful to them.
 
My Kids and I volunteer for Unravel Pediatric Cancer all the time. They call them "kidvocates" we have fun doing it!!


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Yes - my daughter was on the news last year for assembling humanitarian kits! It was pretty cool.
 
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