4 ways to encourage kids to give this Christmas
The holiday season can be a jumble of excessive consumption. And even more so for little people, who view this as an extremely exciting and special time of year.
But what does this teach our children, if they view the festive season purely as a time to receive? That’s why using Christmas (or the holiday season) as an opportunity to teach them about giving, is a much more useful attitude to take.
Here are some ideas on how to do this:
1. Sign up to Santa’s Shoebox
This charitable gifting initiative is so popular for many reasons: one being that’s it’s a simple, effective way to teach your children about giving to others who are less fortunate than they are. You sign up on their website and pledge your boxes, knowing the name, gender and age of the children you are gifting to.
You then wrap a box and fill it with quite specific items including toiletries, stationery, sweets and a gift. You drop it off at a drop-off point and the boxes are then distributed to the children before the end of the year. From a modest 180 boxes in 2006, this incredible initiative now distributes over 600 000 boxes in both South Africa and Namibia.
Source: iol.co.za