Role modelling Care
This week we took part in World Play Day, a fundraiser to develop toy libraries in disadvantaged communities. This initiative and the opportunity to support it was brought to us by Cotlands, a non-profit early childhood development organisation with a rich heritage of over 80 years of experience in serving young, vulnerable children.
Parents have also been asked to send in food items and boxes to school next week for the Festival of Shavuot ( Shavuot means weeks, it is the counting of the weeks between Pesach when the Jews left Egypt, till Shavuot, when we received the Torah). These food items will go to an organisation that distributes food to families in need.
Most of us weekly, if not daily are asked for help in many different ways for people in need. We are surrounded by people and communities who have little and run on the donations, involvement and generosity of others. People involved in and outside of these concerns.
This is a reality of life today and for me an incredible opportunity to teach our children how powerful they can be. By involving them in giving, helping, and being a part of charitable drives, children, whose worlds are centred around themselves and their needs and wants, learn to think of others, they learn to understand the privilege of opportunity and they learn gratitude for having what they have.
These fundamental qualities of compassion, generosity, involvement and gratitude are essential educational goals alongside reading, writing and numeracy. Thank you for encouraging, supporting and role modelling these behaviours for your children.
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”