One parent and one child participating in an activity. Aunts, uncles and cousins from your extended family joining you. For the non-custodial parent in a divorce, volunteering may be a way for the family to spend quality time together during regularly scheduled visits. Your extended family, such as aunts, uncles and cousins participating in the volunteer experience. Through volunteer activities, families enrich their relationships with one another and gain insights into the challenges of other human beings.
Children gain opportunities to share their time and talents.
Children learn self-confidence and acquire new skills. Family members encounter people from different cultural and economic backgrounds, and grow as human beings. Family members become better at communicating and more supportive of one another. Volunteer experiences carry over into other parts of their lives such as dinner table discussions, and strengthen the family as a unit. Children learn the lifetime lesson that by giving to others they put their own problems in perspective.