Another perk of allowing our kids to learn in the real world is that they become invested in our community.
In our few short years, beyond the connections in our business community that support their academics, they’ve chosen to formally support families at our local children’s hospital, police officers, elderly citizens at nursing homes, homeless residents, and children at foster homes.
Because of their eventual comfort in their freedom, they become keenly aware of people in their daily experiences that could use support or just a desire to sprinkle kindness.
The kid at the baseball game in the row in front of us.
The elderly door man at the business we walk by every day.
The trolley driver who waves at us as he drives by us at the park.
These aren’t performative acts that happen only around the holidays but moments that abound all year round.
Touching peoples’ lives, that is how you change the course of humanity.
