As my Children get older, I want to teach them to give back. I want giving back to be a part of their lives. When they were little, we would talk about people who had very little. I would show them that I was donating to the needy by placing an envelop of money in the church collection. I would take them to buy mittens for the “Christmas glove tree.” I hoped that giving back would sink in, but I wasn’t sure. I remember a time when one of my children was upset about buying a toy for a needy child. The child couldn’t understand why I was not buying the toy for her. Other times I shopped for our adopted family by myself to minimize the concerns expressed by the children. Truly my children have everything they could ever want. But for a little one, seeing mommy buy a toy for someone other than them doesn’t make any sense. To keep the subject of giving back a positive one, I waited til my children were a little older. All three children were about 9 or 10 when I talked about them giving away their toys. As you would imagine [...]