Hugs & Hope: Helping Sick Children One Smile at a Time
Is your kid crafty? Or particularly young? One of the best, habit-forming acts of kindness my family has taken on is card-making for the organization Hugs and Hope.
Hugs and Hope is an online organization dedicated to providing smiles for kids...
Mail: Happy, Hopeful, & Fun
Parenting has dramatically altered my grocery shopping technique.
Sure, there is the predictable increased volume of macaroni noodles, organic yogurt, and apples.
I’m surprised to find myself examining the package as much as the contents...
3 Ways To Do Good During Dinner
Even the busiest family has to eat now and then. Dining together is not only a wonderful way to connect amid the torrid pace of modern life, it is a great opportunity to put some of your family’s green-living goals into action.
Here are...
Reduce, Reuse… & Recycle Like a Ninja in the Dark of Night
Little Miss Four and Miss First Grader have turned my recycle bins into toy bins. Maybe you saw the genesis of this transformation here in my old post Do Good One Box at a Time.
Last year I began saving all manner of clean recyclables for...
Refresh Your Resolutions: New Resources from The Blogunteer
Enjoy this gust post from Stacy Pearson over at The Blogunteer, a great resource for discovering new philanthropic organizations that could use your volunteer efforts. As the dust settles after the turn of the New Year, we can all take a moment...
Caring Kid’s Cook & Clean
Chores.
One of my family’s New Year’s resolutions is all about chores.
I don’t mean Cinderella-style, toothbrush-to-the-floor, scrub-all-day chores. Our family does many things together. We bake together, build forts, read...
Habits for Good: Adopt an Organization
Finding time to help others as a family can be difficult, but if you weave good deeds into your regular routine, the habits become nearly unbreakable. Even the act of reflection can become a routine that sticks.
I saw this lesson in action last...
Our Kind of World
Thanks to the suggestion of another Doing Good Together family, we’ve started a doing good journal. We call it “Our Kind of World” and it has helped redouble everyone’s efforts to notice the good that happens everyday.
For...
The Beating Heart of Kindness
I simply don’t practice kindness in its purest form often enough – offered unasked-for to total strangers. This is something I’m trying to get our whole family to work on.
Don’t get me wrong. The kids and I smile warmly...
