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Youth Volunteers
Volunteering is one way that young people can experience an entirely new situation, work alongside role models, exercise their compassion, have fun, generally empower themselves while doing something valuable.
I think there's a great deal more volunteerism in this current generation than when I was young. Back then it just wasn't expected outside of church and family. My children have done all sorts of community service for all sorts of organizations. Some of it they have enjoyed more than others. All of it has been valuable.
My daughter has spent years volunteering at a center which helps injured birds. Claire cleans cages, walks birds, helps with medical procedures, and even though she is a lifelong vegetarian she unflinchingly cuts up all sorts of dead animals to feed her charges. This kind of work means the world to her, especially when a hawk or falcon can be released back to the sky.
Can you tell me about a volunteer experience from your childhood or tell me
about volunteering your child has done? Some details you may wish to include are how this volunteer position was found, what it entailed, what abilities it fostered, what relationships it may have helped develop, what lessons may have been learned. Or tell me what you think is important. As always, I hope to encourage conversation on the forum for all of us who care about interest-led learning and also to elicit responses that I may excerpt for my upcoming book.
I think there's a great deal more volunteerism in this current generation than when I was young. Back then it just wasn't expected outside of church and family. My children have done all sorts of community service for all sorts of organizations. Some of it they have enjoyed more than others. All of it has been valuable.
My daughter has spent years volunteering at a center which helps injured birds. Claire cleans cages, walks birds, helps with medical procedures, and even though she is a lifelong vegetarian she unflinchingly cuts up all sorts of dead animals to feed her charges. This kind of work means the world to her, especially when a hawk or falcon can be released back to the sky.
Can you tell me about a volunteer experience from your childhood or tell me
about volunteering your child has done? Some details you may wish to include are how this volunteer position was found, what it entailed, what abilities it fostered, what relationships it may have helped develop, what lessons may have been learned. Or tell me what you think is important. As always, I hope to encourage conversation on the forum for all of us who care about interest-led learning and also to elicit responses that I may excerpt for my upcoming book.
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Permalink Reply by Urmila Anna Samson on -
Haven't come across anything in our city. It sounds like an excellent education in itself.
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"If I had the influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over
the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in
the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last
throughout life, an unfailing antidote against the boredom and
disenchantment of later years, sterile preoccupations with things that are
artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."
- Rachel Carson
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