A number of weeks ago the children were chatting with one another, and the topic of people with no houses came up. Over the summer, the children have traveled to a number of holiday spots, and a few of them saw some people that were sleeping outside a store. This is not the first time this has been talked about amongst the children, but it is the first time, it seemed that all the children had a fairly good understanding of what being homeless meant, at least to three and four year olds.
So i'm going to assume this means that the children have talked about this with their families.
This was the first time as well that some of the children expressed some emotion in regards to their situation.
There were no tears, but there was definitely a emotion of empathy, it was heartwarming.
So I attempted to approach the situation delicately. After a discussion of how it made us feel, I asked the children if there was something we could do to help. It's never to early to encourage a philanthropic attitude.
The instant I asked the question, I realized that I would need to pull back the reigns on some of their ideas. I mean, I don't think that our mommies and daddies would be very happy to be having a stranger living in their spare bedroom, i'll leave that to the families!
In the end, we came up with a baby step. We will be making a donation to the local food bank through our fund raiser with Mabel's Labels. If you would like to help us out, our donation website is : http://www.perfectharmony.mabelslabels.com/
We will also be hosting a blanket drive until late November. So if you are close by and have some blankets to donate, we'd appreciate your donation.
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