The Importance of Community Service in Shaping the Values of Our Children

Incorporating service into her family life helped one mother teach her children the profound importance of helping one another

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As parents negotiating our small children’s lives, many of us seek out books and information on how to not screw up our kids, tapping into the wisdom of more experienced adults who have lived through the trials of raising young humans in this complicated world and have come out on the other side with well-adjusted adults. 

So, it was not surprising when a young father recently asked me for the ‘magic trick’ that will turn his own children into children resembling my two sons.

This young father, who has known my boys since they were young, has often