Now 16 and a high school senior, over the past four years Xiomara has logged over 500 volunteer hours, 130 in the last year alone, and she is showing no signs of slowing down.
This 16-year-old has volunteered over 500 hours… and counting
Five Easy Ways to Get Your Family Into Volunteering
A lot of parents know how rewarding and important volunteering can be, but just don’t really know where to start when it comes to their kids. Or they think it will take a lot of extra effort. While it does take some energy and planning to get your children involved in service, you get back so much more than you give. And that’s a great thing to give to our kids.
If we want our kids to be good people, we have to lead the way.
“I consider parenting one giant science experiment, and we started down an early path of service with little more than a dose of hope that it would help cultivate a kind kid. But as he prepares to move onto high school, I see a young man who has already learned how to serve and how to see beyond himself.”
Teens need service—not bribery—to get into the best colleges
As a mother of four, there are so many things I believe I probably don’t get right in the parenting department on a daily basis. My first instinct is to beat myself up over all the things I am probably doing “wrong,“ rather than focus on the things I may be getting right. But that’s Read the full article…