STW, STN, STW, STR & STGTTIN…WTH?
Yep…it’s all the rage this year. Have you figured it out yet? No, well let me help you out.
It’s the cool way of referring to the 4 Gift Challenge you may have heard about, the…
“Something They Want, Something They Need, Something To Wear, Something To Read” approach to gift giving.
When I first found out I was pregnant almost two years ago to the day, I not only realized that my life was going to be forever changed, but that the dynamic in my family was also going to shift. As one of four girls, my son was going to be the first grandchild on my side. And while I knew this was going to be significant, I had NO idea what that was actually going to mean.
When I started working on this blog post, I began writing from the perspective of someone who lived in Houston in 2005 and witnessed the devastation and long- term effects of those displaced by Hurricane Katrina. I was then going to compare that experience with what just happened in Texas and suggest ways that kids could get involved in supporting Hurricane Harvey Relief, from raising money to
This past weekend, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a group of people gathered to protest the removal of a statue that the city felt had come to represent values that no longer reflected the sentiments of its’ people. The protesters proudly carried symbols and signs of hate, chanting words that honestly, most of us never thought would be spoken again.
THAT…is The Ugly…the thing we don’t want to acknowledge
Do we have you singing our blog title in your head right now? GOOD! That means we got your attention.
For some of us…the summer is half over.
We are well into the month of July, have eaten at least 5 S’mores (if you don’t know what those are, you are MISSING OUT!), have given up screaming at the kids to pick up their wet bathing suits off the floor
June 1, 2017 (or doomsday, as I like to refer to it) will go down in history as a day to remember…but probably not in a good way. It will signify the day that the United States announced that it was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, and as you can see- one of the For-Purpose Kids is pretty upset about it.
Wait…what just happened?
It’s been an eventful week- and no, I’m not referring to the “events” (or tweets, or tapes) in Washington that are currently consuming all news and social media channels. I’m talking about something else that occurred over the past five days.
My son had his first birthday.
In our very first blog post last week we told you all about For-Purpose Kids and why it’s so important to get kids involved in giving and volunteering at a young age. Most of us agree that our world is headed in a bit of a scary direction and that we need to do more to teach our kids about empathy and compassion to shape the kind of future we want for them.
