For Informed Citizens, Young & Old
I believe I have mentioned my public radio addiction in previous posts. For so long public radio has been my inspiration to get active in my community. I didn’t expect it to be the target of our social action, but on February 19th, the...
Kinder Book Club: Across the Ally
This week, with a house full of coughing and achy people, we picked up Across the Alley, by Richard Michelson. I found it on the Doing Good Together Books and Websites page, listed as a good tool for teaching kids ages 4 to 8 about human rights.
If...
Pet Toys with Purpose
Have you been stock piling toilet paper tubes? With young children underfoot, you never know when you need a quick set of binoculars or a noise maker. Consider dong good with your stockpile. Turn those toilet paper tubes, old Easter eggs,...
Kinder Book Club: The Gift of Nothing
What do you get for the friend who has everything? Nothing, of course!
Pactrick McDonnell’s The Gift of Nothing is the light-hearted tale of one dog’s quest to find just the right nothing to give his special friend.
The language...
Love & Appreciation
Aahh, Valentine’s Day. This holiday is tricky. It can be seen as a plague among the unintentionally single. It’s resoundingly denounced by the conscientiously anti-consumerist. For parents of young children, however, nothing’s...
Kinder Book Club: Chicken Soup for Little Souls
The Doing Good Together books and websites list connected me with this simple story. Lisa McCourt’s tale, Chicken Soup for Little Souls: Goodness Gorillas, offers an excellent example of kids taking the initiative to be kind, even when...
The Complicated Psychology of Helping
If you have been using the concepts of Doing Good Together to become a helper in the world and to teach your child to become an intentional helper, check out this article on the psychology of helping. Carl Pickhardt, PhD, published “Teaching...
Add Meaning to your School Food Drive
Food drives sprout up at schools periodically throughout the year, offering the opportunity to cram one more thing in your child’s back pack or make one more stop to drop a box off at the front office. Or, of course, spend time reflecting...
BETTER TOGETHER: a family service event
Doing Good Together is partnering with the Midtown Global Market to host Better Together, a free, community-wide family service event. Families are invited to come together to do simple, hands-on service projects, reflect on the importance of...
