- Explore local organizations that support kids
- Start with organizations you know about
- Learn about some new ones
- Choose one to learn about, promote, and support
- Talk to kids about what they think isn’t fair
- Share your first memory of realizing life is not fair
- Read the UNICEF Rights of the Child
- Don’t skip over the uncomfortable ones
- See which ones you are drawn to
- Come up with rights that weren’t on the list
- Ask big questions – “why don’t all kids have enough to eat?”
- Do research to get to the deeper issues
- Read books that help build empathetic connections to tough issues
- Free Lunch is a great one
- Brainstorm ways that kids think differently than adults
- Talk about what you were like as a child
- Blow up some balloons
- Do something nice for your neighbor who just had a baby
- Look through childhood pictures and share some memories
- Eat some cake