{"id":7715,"date":"2019-12-11T21:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/community-service-ideas-for-kids-why-giving-back-matters\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T01:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T01:38:36","slug":"community-service-ideas-for-kids-why-giving-back-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/community-service-ideas-for-kids-why-giving-back-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Service Ideas for Kids: Why Giving Back Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are searching for community service ideas for kids, you may be hoping to help them: 1) Meet school or scouting service requirements; 2) Build positive resumes for college; and\/or 3) Develop into more empathetic and caring young people.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reasons, it\u2019s helpful to understand <em>why <\/em>learning to give back to others is vital for positive youth development and how parents, schools, and communities play an important role. With the right community service ideas and opportunities from kindergarten through high school, young people can grow from an understanding of how they fit into society to how they can help solve societal problems. This developmental process grows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rootsofaction.com\/category\/caring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empathy<\/a> and fosters children\u2019s identities as engaged citizens, the topic of<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/1WAqEvR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em> Tomorrow\u2019s Change Makers: Reclaiming the Power of Citizenship for a New Generation<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rootsofaction.com\/community-service-ideas-for-youth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read more at rootsofaction.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are searching for community service ideas for kids, you may be hoping to help them: 1) Meet school or scouting service requirements; 2) Build positive resumes for college; and\/or 3) Develop into more empathetic and caring young people. Whatever the reasons, it\u2019s helpful to understand why learning to give back to others is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,140],"tags":[2495,2496,798,524,2292,223],"age":[],"content-type":[],"persona":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12253,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions\/12253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}