The Power of Many Hands: Family Service Projects

Doing service in our communities alongside our husbands and children can be such a wonderful experience for everyone involved.  There's nothing like seeing the light in your children's eyes as they do something nice for someone else! 

Many of you are very involved in service and many of you would like to be more involved in service.  In the past, we've offered ideas for a yearly service challenge, but now we hope to offer a new section of the website full of great ideas for meaningful service projects that families can do together - weekly, monthly, yearly...whenever. 

Please consider telling us about the service that you enjoy doing with your family - service to neighbors, involvement with community organizations, service through your church or synagogue, service traditions (projects you do for certain holidays), etc.  

You can submit your ideas as an article, using our submission form (this allows you to include photos and explain it in a blog-like format), or you can simply email it to service@powerofmoms.com.   

Last year we started a wonderful new tradition that has helped our children really get excited about giving to others during the holidays rather than getting too focused on "getting."  
No one likes to deal with lice, but the fact is that many disadvantaged children get sent home from school each day for this reason.  Here is an idea to lend them a hand!
This may be one of the more common ideas for service, but it is a meaningful one the entire family can enjoy doing again and again.