7. Contribute: Instilling a Love for Giving Back

In the Arena with the Eyre Sisters

This week we continue our discussion about our family motto: broaden and contribute. Listen in as we talk about how our parents instilled a contributing-to-the-world mindset in our family growing up, and ways we're continuing that with our children. We want our kids to feel for others and feel empowered to know they can do something to make a difference. In what ways do you help your children contribute?

Listed below are movies & books we recommend to help your family develop a desire to contribute:

- Thirst

- Kisses from Katie

- The Promise of a Pencil

- Shawni's blog has a post discussing these books here

- The Good Lie

- Queen of Katwe

- The Blind Side

Listed below are organizations we recommend if you're looking for ways to contribute:

- CharityVision (Check out Shawni's blog post here) - Rising Star in India (blog post) - OSSO, (blog post) - Family Humanitarian (blog post) - Choice Humanitarian - Care for Life Also, if you're interested in the toolkit Saydi mentioned that her daughter made for the Children for Children Concert, click here. And read more about how to do a Children for Children concert on Shawni's blog, here.