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**Parents * Family * Parents
* Family * Parents * Family * Parents * Family * Parents**
Parents, Grandparents,
Family Members!
YOU can make a difference!
Help your children, grandchildren, their friends and relatives use this site.
Here are some simple steps and ideas:
1. Read
more about I4I on the "Kids," "Youth," and "Adults" pages. Learn how to "Send in Your Ideas."
2. Take some time for fun to sit down with your child and go to the I4I website.
This can be a fun activity that you can do together.
3. Read the "Kids" or "Youth" pages with your children or grandchildren.
4. Talk with your child about what Peace,
Green-Living, and Health are about and why they are important to the world. Listen to what your child says
about these topics.
5. Let your child know that he or she has good ideas and can do things everyday that
help the world. The ideas and actions can be very simple and easy, or more difficult to do. It does not matter.
Every idea and action for Peace, Green-Living, and Health is important.
For example, your 4 year old might
say for an action, "I cleaned up the backyard today." You can help your 4 year old send this in as an
Action for "Green-Living." Or, your 12 year old might say for an Idea for Health, "It would be great
if we started a "Big Brother" and "Big Sister" biking team in our community." Help
them send that in as an "Idea." Ideas are just that. They are ideas that may not be acted upon yet.
That is fine. Others may read them and decide to do them.
Also, remember your child can write and
send in Poems as "Ideas" or "Actions." Help them write a poem and send it in.
Don't
worry if your child thinks of something that is already posted on the website. That is okay. They can send it
in for posting too. It is part of starting a good habit. Let them copy and build on others' ideas
and actions. The important thing is that your children get in a regular habit of thinking and acting in ways that
help the world.
6. Help them send in their ideas and actions.
7. Help them explore the ideas and actions on the website to get them thinking about other things they can do. Put ideas together to make a new idea. Or,
if they see a good action they want to do, help them do it.
8. Be happy and proud of the ideas and actions
they share. Show them how the ideas and actions are growing on the website and coming from different people in
other places. Tell them how they are helping. Watch the World Banners grow!
9. Help them look at their collection of ideas and actions on the website and
see it grow. Be sure to save any HONOR CERTIFICATES they may receive. Show the HONOR CERTIFICATES to their schools, scout troops, etc.
10. Get together with other parents and find special ways to honor children for sending in
ideas and actions. Find out more about POWER GROUPS and tell your child's school, scout troop, or other groups.
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