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TEACH THEM HUMANITY through volunteering
Volunteering is a great way of instilling good values in your children. It’s also a great way of spending quality time as a family. Whether it’s something as simple as helping to hand out bread at a local soup kitchen, reading to residents at an old age home or teaching older kids to tutor primary school pupils at orphanages, children who volunteer are more likely to continue doing it into adulthood. Its benefits include the following:
It teaches them empathy and compassion by exposing them firsthand to how underprivileged people live.
By witnessing deprivation in others, they learn gratitude for what they have.
They learn to co-operate with others because volunteering encourages teamwork, which will
