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Global Effort and Giving Back [infographic] #atozchallenge

Global Effort and Giving Back 

Do you give back? Do you teach your children how to give back to others? why or why not? That has to be on of the single most important task we as parents I feel have been assigned to us, teaching our kids how to respect others people and give back to others. I bet you will find in households with kids who misbehave, act out or disrespect authority, parents that do not respect other people or give back to others themselves. Setting an example early on, even as infants, will instill an attitude of giving and respect that will follow your kids later in life and help them far more than you think.
How do you teach them to give back? Easy, show them by doing it yourself! Volunteer, deliver meals, donate to local charities, collect toys for tots, give away toys and clothes to the less fortunate, donate can foods to local food banks, take homemade cookies to a local neighborhood senior, show acts of kindness with your kids helping ( we love to to these all the time).
Share some of your giving back ideas in our comments, we love to hear them!

I love the infographic below that shows some giving back from major companies! A Global effort to help the world we live in. We studied this today and wanted to share it.

Friendship~ sticking together no matter what!

This was so sweet and so true that I had to share, no matter what, your true friends
do stick together when times are tough, value those friends and treat them just
as they would treat you! Thank God daily for bringing friends and angels into your
life, he alone is responsible for pairing you up with those friends that will last the miles.
Enjoy the pictures below, a truly feel good post! I hope I made you smile and made
your day, inspiring you to pass on your joy to someone else. Pay it Forward!

Source: themetapicture.com via Marian on Pinterest

Random Acts of Kindness ~ 700 Teddy Bears

Such a sweet story, I had to share it ~~


"As a parent, I couldn't help but pass along my daughter's story.
My daughter, Taylor Marie Crabtree (age seven) started a business called TayBear Company. She makes and sells hand painted hair clips at local stores. When she started her business I assumed that she wanted extra spending money, but then she told me the purpose of her business.

Taylor was going to buy teddy bears for children with cancer. She said the kids probably have a lot of sadness in their lives and she wanted them to have something special to hug and to hug them back. Taylor wanted them to know that even strangers care about them. She set her goal at 500 teddy bears. I thought her too high goal was that of a child that didn't really understand. I was the one that didn't understand.

The media picked up on Taylor's project and our community has embraced her efforts. But help has come from far beyond our little community. Taylor has received donations from strangers that live thousands of miles away, just from word of mouth. It has been rather like a chain letter from the heart. With her scribbly second grade handwriting, she wrote each person with her appreciation and an update on her project. She has also expanded her project to include over 100 other children (including special needs kids) as helpers. Taylor wanted other kids to feel that they too were capable of helping others in their own way. Along the way she also raised her goal to 700 teddy bears.

Each day after selling, Taylor and her helpers talk about the people who had touched their hearts. Maybe it was the homeless man that had donated 11 cents and was surprised when he was told that was plenty of money to buy a hair clip. He and Taylor stood together choosing just the right hair clip for his lady friend. Or maybe it was the young woman who was flying back home the next day to say goodbye for the last time to her father, who was dying from cancer. Perhaps it was the man that drove all the way to his bank and back in order to buy a hair clip for his Mom. He said that his Dad had recently died from cancer. He wanted a child to have a teddy bear in his Dad's memory. With each hair clip or donation has come so many memories and a realization that when working toward a goal from your heart, the journey too is part of the experience. Taylor once told me "how could people not see Angels, they're everywhere.
- Tricia Crabtree"

More inspiring RAK stories here http://www.peopleandpossibilities.com/33kindnessstories2.html