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From Jean Chatzky's Teach Your Children to Give
Let them choose their own causes. You may be on the board of one organization or another. Don't push them on your kids. Instead, understand that when children can focus on things they find interesting, they'll be more apt to stay with it. So present them with some charitable or volunteering opportunities that they'll enjoy or at the very least understand. An important thing to consider is that, while natural instinct makes you want to shield your children from the wrongs of the world, that's not always the best approach. "There are sensitive, age-appropriate ways to introduce kids to issues in the world around them so that they are portrayed not as unsolvable and scary, but as opportunities to make a difference," says Ellen Sabin, author of The Giving Book, which was written for kids.
Thanksgiving is an awesome time to reflect on all that we recieve.
Listen is as Jean Chatzky's chats with Aleta St. James on the giving and gratitude.
Take your charitable giving as seriously as you took your investing
Cami Walker over at 29-day Giving Challenge is stirring up a bit of gratitude!
As a community, we are declaring November 20th Gratitude Greetings Day.
Those who decide to celebrate this day will MAKE A GREETING CARD (or two or three) and give or mail it to a loved one on Thursday, November 20. Or feel free to give a card to a stranger on the street. It's so important to tell people what we appreciate about them and why we're grateful they exist.


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"Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.”
~Osho
How about next month, we swap says, then you can cover for me :) It is because I can't get my head around the time zone stuff that the welcome messages are going out!
namaste
I hope you enjoy the weekend, I have been previewing it today for you and I think your'e going to like this weekend :)
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In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806
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