Disclaimer: I have teamed up with CWIST in support of this campaign. We received compensation for participation in this campaign. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Christmas is the perfect time of the year to teach kids about the beauty of generosity. Christmas is the season of giving, but in our highly commercialized society it’s easy for kids to believe that Christmas is about receiving. The CWIST for Kids initiative is a great opportunity to talk to you children about giving and to teach them the value of helping those in need.
The process is quite simple. Once you are logged into your account and have selected to give to the CWIST for Kids initiative, you select the homeless child whom you want to see their wish come true. The profiles of these children come from CWIST’s charity partners, the Lighthouse Shelter, Sarah’s House and the AAC Social Services Holiday Sharing in MD. Each profile shows the child’s age, gender and what they like. It’s a great opportunity to find a child similar to your own to help them really put themselves in the shoes of a child in need.
Then you choose the challenges you’d like your kids to complete and once they are marked as completed, CWIST will send the gift the child in need wished for. I highly suggest having the challenges that you create for your kids to be giving focused so that your child can experience giving at multiple levels. CWIST will be donating the first $2,000 in toys earned by children for completing CWISTs to family-supporting charities. This is a great way to get involved in giving as a family at no expense to you!
CWIST is an incentive-based digital learning platform where parents and educators can share ideas, motivate kids to learn and teach valuable life lessons. With CWIST, parents assign a learning challenge (“a cwist”) that the child will love doing because it’s interactive and it’s fun. There are two types of CWISTs: Ready-made challenges can be drawn from an online library of age-appropriate educational online games, such as a math challenges. Or, parents can create their own challenge for their kids to complete. This might be a chore, such as filling up two bags of leaves from the yard, or a learning activities, such completing a reading assignment.
Click here for more information on Cwist.