my 7 yr old son raising money for save the children.

mrshaz

i'd like to say thank you to everyone who has sponsored my son, he is thrilled. including what he has raised at home he is on almost £200.
it seems to be helping his confidence alot knowing taht people think he is doing a good thing, he knows he is lucky to have all he has and thats why he wants to help.

yes he's no saint hes like any other 7yr old occasionally has a bad attitude, often wants this that and the other but he has an incredibly good heart and cares so much about everything around him. i am so so pround of him and know that he will go on to be a fantastic adult and that he will always be the kind caring little boy he is now.

he is writing down all his efforts ina project book with pictures, so that he will always remember the good he is doing and to remind him that a little effort goes a long way.

today i am going to contact the paper to advertise his halloween party that hes organising at the end of the month, he is writing more letters tonight asking for prize donations and we will visit the shops to see if anyone will help.

mrshaz

caleb has a photographer coming from the paper on friday. hes going to be so excited

fly_dragon_fly

are you on facebook? I see a lot of people do auctions for charities ect so maybe that is another way, i have a lot of pages on there that i view that are always donating items, facebook is an amazing place and helps so many charities.

It's super easy to set up a page and i'd be happy to help if that's something you'd like to do xx

liam8282

mrshaz wrote: »

caleb has a photographer coming from the paper on friday. hes going to be so excited

Call me cynical, or whatever you like, but I have seen so many stories like this in the past.

It usually all boils down to one thing in the end, pushy pompous self righteous parents.

I am certain a 7 year old child would not know the slightest thing about charities, fundraising, etc. unless the parent had put these ideas into their heads first.

Most parents, would take their kids to play in a local park, not make an exhibition out of walking 7 miles around a lake for charity.

At least you will have your 15 minutes of fame when your son is the paper. Oh I mean your son will have his 15 minutes.....

Their are many ways to do good, and they do not involve telling everybody how brilliant you or your son is for doing that good.

I await the backlash from the PC brigade.......

mrshaz

Thank you for your reply.

You are of course entitled to your opinion but its a little unfair to make assumptions.

My son knows about charities and fundraising due to the fact that i have been involved with charity work in the past.

he saw an advert on the t.v about starving and sick children, he decided he wanted to help. his decision not mine.

besides i think its a valuable lesson to learn, a little hard work can go a long way!! he's also learning not to take things for granted, learning that not everyone has food and water etc.

the whole newspaper thing is to help him really understand how much what he's done can help. and that other people recognise it.

is enjoying what he's doing and i will support him.

call me a pushy parent if you like but you don't know me or my son.

do you think the news should be all doom and gloom and how miserable life is??

kiss_me_now9

Reminds me of my dear friend who sadly passed away last year - she spent her life fundraising for less fortunate people and she blossomed into a wonderful, kind and generous young lady. Good luck to him x

meg72

liam8282 wrote: »

Call me cynical, or whatever you like, but I have seen so many stories like this in the past.

It usually all boils down to one thing in the end, pushy pompous self righteous parents.

I am certain a 7 year old child would not know the slightest thing about charities, fundraising, etc. unless the parent had put these ideas into their heads first.

Most parents, would take their kids to play in a local park, not make an exhibition out of walking 7 miles around a lake for charity.

At least you will have your 15 minutes of fame when your son is the paper. Oh I mean your son will have his 15 minutes.....

Their are many ways to do good, and they do not involve telling everybody how brilliant you or your son is for doing that good.

I await the backlash from the PC brigade.......

And I am certain that a seven year old would have already have had various experiences of charity fund raising,they start in Nursery now you know.

I think this is a very mean post,maybe you are having a bad day,
if so, I am sorry for you and send a hug,if not and you just want to be mean, please go and do it somewhere else. This thread is about
a little boy who wants to do something for kids less fortunate than
himself and some of us are enjoying supporting him.

sibles

I hope you don't mind, but I work with Save the Children as part of my work so I dropped my contact there an email praising your little boy.
Good Luck Caleb

liam8282

meg72 wrote: »

And I am certain that a seven year old would have already have had various experiences of charity fund raising,they start in Nursery now you know.

I think this is a very mean post,maybe you are having a bad day,
if so, I am sorry for you and send a hug,if not and you just want to be mean, please go and do it somewhere else. This thread is about
a little boy who wants to do something for kids less fortunate than
himself and some of us are enjoying supporting him.

The op could accept my comment, and could understand my point and i can accept theirs, that is good enough for me.

It was not mean and if you do not want to read my comments ignore them, or take your own advice and you go somewhere else.

I too have a 7yo son, and yes they are aware of charity in schools from an early age, be that wear your own clothes, bun sales....... But at the end of the day let's not forget these are 7yo children, childhood is for playing, having fun and being a child, not worrying about fund raising and having stuff like this drilled into you.

I am never sure when a child so young is promoted so much as wanting to do good for others, whether it is actually the child that wants this or just the parent using the child, as it is clearly more effective to use a child and tell everyone what they are doing, rather than if this was just the op saying that it was them who was doing fundraising themselves.

In all honesty, would anyone have the same feelings if the op came on and said they were doing a 30 mile walk round a lake?

Katiehound

Sorry but I think you are being very cynical. A few children really WANT to help others, obviously your child doesn't but it doesn't mean you have to make rather nasty comments. Sadly most 7 year olds have already got the selfish message that they NEED to have everything- very few children in our society these days aren't self centered and concerned about the latest toy/ gadget etc.
Thank heavens to hear of one little boy who would like to help others- no doubt encouraged by his mum, but for goodness sake, there's nothing wrong with that. I know which little boy I'd choose!

Good luck with the fund raising. Incidentally in the past some of the chain stores used to have a small budget put aside for local fund raising- maybe not in these austere times but it would certainly be worth asking the likes of Boots, tesco, Sainsburys etc. Headed note paper with the charity registered number might help you in that way