Teaching Children to Have a Heart for Service
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It’s important to teach children that service should become a daily habit. Holding a door open for someone, retrieving a stray shopping cart, or even taking out the garbage without being asked are all acts of service.
These habits lay the foundation for their futures as caring, compassionate young adults instead of being self-centered and feeling a sense of entitlement. Something might even end up being a life-changing experience.
For ideas on specific ways kids can experience a heart for service, see Looking Outside Yourself: Encouraging Teens for Service.
Check out our favorite books with a service theme, and let us know what you’d add to our list!
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Our Favorite Books About Service
- The Giving Tree
- Charlotte’s Web
- Elliot’s Emergency
- Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes
- These Are My People: A Biography of Gladys Aylward
- Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
- Shoeshine Girl (Trophy Chapter Books (Paperback))
- Great Joy (midi edition)
- Should I Share My Ice Cream? (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
- Maddi’s Fridge
- South
- Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen (Reading Rainbow Book)
- Fly Away Home
- The Lady in the Box
- Angelo
- Number the Stars
The most popular posts from last week’s link up are:
- Science FUN in the Garden – with Printables from BJ’s Homeschool
- Children’s Audiobooks from My Life’s Work
And now for the link up!
This list has our topics for 2016, but you don’t have to stick to that, anything reading and family related is welcome
Our hosts will still share a themed selection each week, but our link up will be for anything literature related and family friendly – always.
If you’d like to join us as a co-host in the new year, please contact Katie.
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Mother of 3 says
March 24, 2016 at 3:27 PMI’m not sure if anyone has noticed or realized but the link- up does not seem to be linked up between all the host blogs this week. I was just at Paradise Praises site and her blog has only three links; all of which are different from these links.
Mother of 3 says
March 24, 2016 at 3:29 PMOoops! Never mind…. I was looking at the Wrong Link up!
Beth says
March 25, 2016 at 12:44 AMThe TorchLighters video series is a good resource as well. There are a few available for free through Amazon Prime.
C. Lee Reed says
March 27, 2016 at 7:11 PMIt’s so important for all of us to remember to have a servant’s heart and if we do, it becomes second nature to our children. Serving others has always made me feel better and its so easy to do.