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Kid volunteers: Raising children who give back
Your kids are making their wish lists and coveting stuff, and the true spirit of the holidays is being usurped by the toy catalogue. Are you inadvertently raising little consumers who constantly compare what they have and don’t have? Here’s how to teach them empathy and the value of giving back.
For the last couple of years,
Toronto mom Salma Syed and her kids, Maarya, 12, Ibraheem, eight, and Sameeha, six, have been part of Spreading Salam, a group created to help kids volunteer and give back. The kid volunteers socialize a bit with their buddies in the group, make sandwiches and pack them up. Then the parents and some of the older children head to downtown Toronto to deliver the food and bottles of water to homeless people. The kid volunteers involved with Spreading Salam also make and help distribute food baskets to Syrian refugees who’ve made Canada their home. “We want to make sure that we’re instilling the values i