Less showy acts of charity

[anicebag]

How do you promote charity in your home to your kids? Without the showy look at meeeeeeeee side of just giving/ charity runs etc. They make me cringe, although I appreciate they have their place.

My Dh feels charity begins at home and through living with him, for an easy life I suppose, it's not been so high on the agenda. I've not done as much as I would previously do also, as I've also had less time. He does and would do anything to help anybody btw, he's just not into charity.

What do you guys do?

I guess it depends on what he means by charity begins at home. I've always assumed it meant in your own country as opposed to abroad, rather than in your own house.

When we go out for McDonald's we tend to buy an extra meal to give to a homeless person. The key part being the kids actually chatting them when they hand it over.

We do bigger sponsored rides/walks etc for example for a hospital where ds1 was treated. But I think the kids do that more for enjoyment than the sponsored part of it.

We sometimes put together stuff for the foodbank together. Which makes them think about other people's needs - these days they might suggest a gluten free option.

We choose stuff for the foodbank (and check online for what they need before we go, and ds needs to put it in the trolley), and for the community pantry. We volunteer to do stuff for charity events - marshalling at running events, helping with teas at something (ds particularly likes washing up), manning a stand for a dog charity and talking to people about our dogs, - all sorts of things and ds has had to come with us to everything we do so he's used to turning up and getting stuck in and as a teenager now he's really good at looking for what is needed.

We've sponsored a guide dog each year for years. The children enjoy the updates about their training and learning about the work they do. They also do a twice yearly bake sale with some friends, and choose a charity together. This year, after hearing about a family I was working with, they chose War Child, which made me really proud.

That kind of thing tiggles. Thanks, I online shop so the food bank thing gets lost on them. I could take them to give stuffing I suppose. We've bought teas and food for people occasionally too. They have a couple of monthly things they contribute too, but really that's online and not thought about. Maybe I'm overthinking it, I think that a catholic upbringing we were force fed sciaf and it was a thing about what we were doing for others. I don't think my kids think about it all really. The charity at home thing is more about he thinks he has a personal responsibility to cover/prepare himself for difficult times and it's not really a personal need in his psyche to give to charity, whatever the rights and wrongs of that are.

Ah. The dog things. Great idea. They loves dogs. Thank you. These are all logos ideas. Thanks.

Great ideas. Not logos. 🙄