Admittedly, I have to really encourage her to be nice to her brothers. She is the big sister and she revels in making them understand that. Sometimes she has to be reminded to treat her brothers with kindness.
Yesterday we were heading home after meeting DadOf3 for lunch. As we were waiting at the stoplight, the kids and I saw a homeless man with a sign that said: Homeless and just trying to survive. I try to keep McDonald's gift certificates in my car for just such an occasion, but this time I was out so I got a dollar out of my purse and handed it to the man. Princess had lots of qustions for me.
What doesn't he have a home?
Why are we giving him money?
How else can we help him?
Couldn't he come and live with us?
That last question took my breath away. Of course in this day and age, the answer has to be no. Visions of Elizabeth Smart being abducted by a homeless man her father brought home flashed in my mind.
I explained that we didn't know him and it would not be safe to bring him home, but we could help him in other ways. We started brainstorming how we can help:
- Have McDonald gift certificates in the van
- Have bottled water in the van to hand out
- Have some dollars in the van to hand out
- Make sack lunches and hand them out
- Bring them lemonade (we just had a lemonade stand so this is still on her mind)
Is there anything we are missing? We would love more ideas to add to our list. Princess will be checking this with me, so PLEASE only nice answers that you would read to your own favorite six/almost seven year old.
6 comments:
Does your area have gift certificates (for lack of a better term) for the homeless? One of the missions in my area does this voucher type thing that people can buy to give away.
I know its super hot there right now, but any old blankets or towels? Definitely water and gift certificates are a great idea!
We are too far away from the city to see any homeless here.
Homeless people is something my kids have never seen. We live in a small farming area, and there just isn't anything like people living on the street or anything like that.. Once in a blue moon you might see a man standing infront of mcdonalds with a sign saying "will work for food" but I think in the 14 years I have lived here I have only seen that twice.
What a wonderful blessing to beable to help someone like that.
sounds like she's gonna have big heart.
That's very thoughtful of her.
Here though we have homeless people on almost every corner. Really sad
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