Healthy Work at Home Tips For Homeschooling Families

How do you teach your child? Of course their are curriculums and courses. But really teaching your child starts with modeling. You live with little sponges. They soak up not only what you tell them, but more importantly what you do. Yes, you will use methods to teach your child how to read. If they grow up in a household where they see others reading often and throughout the day, teaching them the skill of reading will be much easier than if they don’t witness readers in their environment.

The same is true for charity, or giving, or altrusim. Talking about it is great. Doing it is better. Both together is awesome. The state of the world lately is enough to make one want to hide in a shell. Wars, poverty, poor health care, deteriorating environment. It’s hard to imagine that one person or family can make a difference and often that mindset becomes paralyzing.

Try and step back for a moment from the feeling of being overwhelmed. Think in terms of one child; one child helping another child on the planet. Then think about a family of children raising money to send to a family of children on the other side of the world. Now what if a community of families (a church or a neighborhood block) got together to help a similar size community of families in an poor area of the state you live in? It started with one child and now it might be 100 people caring for and supporting 100 other people. See how easily it grows?

You work at home and you homeschool you children. Chances are you make enough to live comfortably yet not luxuriously. My challenge to you is to find a way to incorporate charity into your work and your home life. Let your children join you. Set a goal that connects your income and profit to a concrete altruistic endeavor. There are many situations worldwide and locally where you can have a direct effect rather than sending your money through a large non-profit, like United Way. (Don’t get me wrong, United Way is wonderful organization. It’s just that large non-profits have large overhead and it’s harder to feel connected to the end result, especially for children.)

Sometimes what you give ends up being time instead of money. For children this is even better. An afternoon a week at the local nursing home has much more impact than money sent in an envelope. Here is a link to an article I wrote with the intent of motivating people to find a way to create residual income and then use some of that income and free time to become a change agent in the world. The article uses a specific charitable opportunity to send a child to school in Haiti as it’s example. Read it by clicking here.

When children see you working and earning money not just for yourself and the family but for the greater good of the world we live in…that’s powerful stuff. When they can be a part of it you instill in them a value that they will carry throughout their lives. We CAN change the world, one child at a time.

Here’s one other link I found on this topic that I really liked. Give To Charity or Charities Even If You’re Not Big and Rich!

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