9 Ways Kids Can Volunteer to Help Others

December 24, 2014

My 7-year-old son Jack has tons of fun helping others, sharing his toys, and bettering our community. Even our sweet puppy Lucy is a volunteer! I’ve rounded up awesome ways your kids can step out into the community and make a big difference. Visiting, donating, collecting, mailing … the ideas are endless.

1. Make a grand-buddy. Go with your child to a nursing home or assisted living facility…

Single mom Christine Coppa is the author of the Target Breakout Book, Rattled! (Broadway Books, 2009) and the founding blogger of glamour.com's acclaimed Storked! blog where she spilled it about navigating an unplanned pregnancy and single motherhood minus her son's father. You can also find her witty (and often controversial blogs) on parenting.com, babble.com and Nickmom.com A professional writer/editor, she's contributed to Glamour, Marie Claire (Australia), First for Women, In Touch, Parenting, Baby Talk, and Parents among other publications and notable websites. Her work has been buzzed about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on ABC's 20/20. Coppa and her son represented the Yoplait Kids brand in 2011. The Sunday London Times called her a writer "at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." Coppa lives in North Jersey with her son Jack Domenic, 6 who is currently campaigning for a Golden Retriever puppy.