For 60 minutes, a crew of 25 kids (and a few hovering parents) armed with donated lunch meat, cheese slices and loaves of bread, cranked out enough sandwiches to feed 300 hungry people. Our 4-H club partnered with Minneapolis-based The Sandwich Project this month to get the kids in a service frame of mind. It [...]

The effect of the natural world on your mood can be a powerful thing, I discovered one summer week in my teens. A friend had taken me out of the city, off the grid and all the way up to the edge of the Boundary Waters to share a retreat her family had been visiting [...]

Before we arrived at St. Odilia Church, 2-year-old Olivia was fairly confident that she was going to fill a few Easter baskets with goodies and bunny hop herself right home with them. Not quite, we explained. We’re actually going to fill baskets for kids who otherwise might not get one on Easter. That seemed agreeable [...]

Volunteering with our children is one of those things that we talk about wanting to do but never actually get around to doing. And why is that? Shouldn’t we be teaching the kids to think about people other than themselves? And how we can share our resources to help those other people? It also came [...]