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Do something for someone else

CM Coach May1,000+ posts
I never knew how good it felt to do something for other people until I started doing it. I never really appreciated what I have until I realized that so many others do not have what Im thankfull for. I started thinking awhile back "What do my kids do for other people"? How can they really appreciate what they have to be thankfull for if they do not have an understanding of how much others really do not have. My biggest gift to my children this year will a trip. A trip to the homeless shelter to serve Christmas Dinner. And I know when we get home that night. Christmas dinner at our home will mean so much more to all of us. Every year I take our team on a trip. Last year it was to the Ronald McDonal House in Durham. This is where the kids and families of out of town cancer patients stay during treatment. Most of the kids at this particular house will never go home. We played video games with them and took them cup cakes and just hung out. When we got back on the bus after spending the day with them I saw alot of tears. No one talked all the way home. Huge Impact on all of us folks , HUGE. Do something for someone else this Thanksgiving and or Christmas. It will make Christmas even more special. Believe me.
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TPMTPMHSBaseballweb Member since 2003
Coach May,
Good post.
I also felt that in order to teach my children to be thankful for what they have, they needed to see what others didn't have, if that makes sense.

So we did the same one year, in another capacity, we dressed DK in a Barney costume and headed up to the hospital to visit seriously ill childern to give out gifts for the holidays. The gifts they gave, were bought with their own money that they earned working.

I often wondered if the lesson sunk in. My daughter works very hard as a volunteer for events for her companies charities and DK sometimes ate lunch in the public schools up around Clemson with the orphaned youngsters who were fans all on his own. It was hard for him at first to comprehend that it meant so much to them.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all the websters and my good friends on the HSBBW.
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KrakatoaKrakatoa1,000+ posts
Coach May, you're so right. I have plans to take my players to the Seoul Station subway near Christmas, with food they've made themselves, to give to the homeless people living in there. The Asian economic crisis of several years ago torched a lot of good people here, and many have never been able to get back on their feet. A guy asleep on a piece of cardboard may have been a high-level exec at Samsung five years ago.....just never know. Families break apart and people just try to hang on.....we will be there for them.....although we're going to create a hell of a stir; a bunch of foreigners descending into the Seoul Station carrying all sorts of goodies! I'm really looking forward to it.

Have a good one and thanks again for posting....hope it encourages more folks to chip in around the 'home'...planet Earth.
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RJMRJMHSBaseballWeb member since 2007
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Originally posted by Tiger Paw Mom:
Coach May,
Good post.
I also felt that in order to teach my children to be thankful for what they have, they needed to see what others didn't have, if that makes sense.

So we did the same one year, in another capacity, we dressed DK in a Barney costume and headed up to the hospital to visit seriously ill childern to give out gifts for the holidays. The gifts they gave, were bought with their own money that they earned working.

I often wondered if the lesson sunk in. My daughter works very hard as a volunteer for events for her companies charities and DK sometimes ate lunch in the public schools up around Clemson with the orphaned youngsters who were fans all on his own. It was hard for him at first to comprehend that it meant so much to them.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all the websters and my good friends on the HSBBW.
One of the great "helping" stories is what the community around Clemson has done for the football player (can't remember his name) raising his younger brother. I believe they're from Florida. The NCAA tried to screw it up (illegal payments to a player), but fortunately common sense prevailed.

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