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Free Pancakes For A Cause *Giveaway*

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A couple of weeks ago, a local restaurant chain hosted a free pancake day to raise money for an established children’s charity.  I don’t typically go out to breakfast unless it’s a Saturday and the hubby is around, however, I felt like it was an important cause and thought it would make for a teachable moment with my son.

Perkins, a popular restaurant chain in the midwest, Florida, and Pennsylvania is hosting a free pancake day on Monday, March 21st to raise money for Give Kids The World (GKTW).  This local, non-profit organization provides week-long vacations to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families at a “storybook” retreat in Central Florida.  Every year 27,000 children are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and this organization seeks to improve the quality of some of these children’s lives.  For 25 years, GKTW has served over 100,000 US and international families, providing them with a week-long vacation that includes accommodations at the GKTW Village, meals, donated attraction tickets, and more.

Perkins Restaurant & Bakery has supported the organization for 20 years and serves more than 200,000 free meals each year at the Gingerbread House Restaurant, located in the heart of the Give Kids The World Village.  420 US and Canadian restaurants will participate in Perkins Pancake Day and will serve guests their made-from-scratch buttermilk pancakes.  Perkins would like guests to consider donating to GKTW.  To find a participating location, just visit their website or Facebook page.

Win It! One of you will win a $50 gift card to Perkins.  Simply leave me a comment with one way you teach your children to give back.  Comments will close on March 30th, 2011 at 11:59 PM PST.  US Residents only.  Duplicates and comments not including the above information will be disqualified. Comments are moderated. If you don’t see your comment in a reasonable amount of time, send me an email. Bloggers and non-bloggers may enter. If you don’t want to leave your email address, please be sure to check back for my announcement on the winner. Please note that winners must respond within 48 hours of being announced/contacted or another winner will be drawn.

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  1. When my daughter was at home (she is grown now) I would have her do some volunteering during the summer months . Her favorite place to volunteer was the food bank. It taught her empathy, and it let her serve her community and hopefully see even a hot meal wasnt to be taken for granted. I volunteer there, so she was modeling my behavior at first- once she got to be 16 though she was able to do other things they needed help doing such as assisting the elderly etc. I think it benefitted her and made her a better person. She kept volunteering even after she got a part-time job, she never gave the time spent serving others completely up.

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  5. Our boys are in college now but we taught them to give back by exampe. We always supported our church and community events. They went with me many times to deliver a meal to a neighbor who had just suffered a loss or was sick.

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  10. I always let my daughter be the one to give money to the Salvation Army outside grocery stores and try to explain to her the importance on helping people in need

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  35. My children are grown, but they were in high school they were involved with Junior Civitan and worked on projects here in our community. When they were little, they used their allowance to buy toys for needy children at Christmas.

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  39. Kids learn by example. We recycle at home and at church so our daughter sees all that. If we go walking and see some litter, she notices and wants to pick it up and recycle it. We also help out at church so she sees that and hopefully will help more there as well as she grows up.

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  49. I always encourage my kids to share – that’s like giving back.
    Thank you.
    barbara dot montyj at gmail dot com

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  60. My kids are grown but starting when they were just babies I bought 2 of everything and gave one to toys for tots. This little gesture has grown into a 12 month commitment to toys for tots. 5 yrs ago I moved across country and my oldest daughter took over my activities in the east. My youngest daughter, mother of 6, is very active in her community and I have renewed my activities in the Valley of the Sun.

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  68. by setting an example. writing thank you letters during the holidays, watching news about world events to broaden their horizons

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  72. We collect money and blankets for the animal shelters as well as donating clothes and toys to those in need. Thanks for the chance.

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  74. We try to say “yes” and give whenever we can. We also give anonymously at Christmas as a family. They love helping at the food bank! 🙂

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  78. We donate food to the food bank at least once a month and donate all old toys to them as well my daughter loves to be able to pick out the food and to know that her toys are going to go on and be played with by someone else!

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  84. Our kids save all our aluminum cans. The money they make from selling them at our recylcing center they then donate to a charity of their choosing.

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  86. i don’t have children, but i always try to do RIGHT by others and hope my nieces would follow by example.

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  91. I teach my children to give back by letting them witness their father and mother giving back. I have just recently become more proactive in letting them see that even the smallest gesture can help.
    Alicia Webster
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  100. We do most of our shopping at thrift stores like Goodwill. We also donate all our old clothes and daughter’s old toys to these stores. I tell my daughter that if i weren’t for people like us, we wouldn’t have any nice clothes to wear. I explain to her the importance of donations.
    aeris321 at gmail dot com

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  105. I plan to teach by example…attend community events, donate to causes that promote science, environmental concerns and health & well-being.

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  106. I teach them to give back by donating food and volunteering with them at the local food bank.

    kport207 at gmail dot com

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  108. I have always included my kids in food, clothing, household items, and toy drives. My son went with me to blood drives as a kid, then volunteered for them as a teenager.

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  112. I would teach by encouraging them to donate items they no longer need or use, so that someone less fortunate can enjoy them.

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  114. I get the kids involved in giving, we clean out their toys and donate them the Salvation Army, and we also give food to our local food bank.

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  115. My son is 18 now, but he’s been volunteering at my non-profit since he was 10, leads the youth group at church and helps my mom at the rescuse mission. He’s already lining up his volunteer activities for college so I think the next generation is in good hands!

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  116. we taught the children to give back by donating to our local foodbank and donating their toys they no longer played with.

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  120. ive always taught my childern to help who ever needs a helping hand because we never kmow when we might need help as well

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  122. I have always taught that some type of volunteering should be done — especially during the summer vacation months when there is so much extra time.

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  123. I teach my kidlets to give back by making homemade cards that say they will do 1 or 2 chores
    for a friend or relative. 😉

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  135. one way that i like to teach them is by teaching them what they have and NOT what they dont have. and by teaching them that its better to give than to recieve.

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  136. We are planning to start a canned food drive in our neighborhood next Halloween. The kids can collect food for our local food shelf while trick or treating!

    coriwestphal at msn dot com

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  142. The best way to teach children to ‘give back’ is to let them see you doing just that, talking about experiences, and then finding activities that they can participate in with you to accomplish charitable acts.

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  144. the best way to teach giving back is through example – like food donations and volunteering at the humane society

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  146. We always buy a few extra items each week to donate to the Church’s food bank as well as donate to the National Kidney Foundation. It is also important to have them pick out an angel off the Angel Tree every Christmas and go shopping for that person.
    wbailey113 at hotmail dot com

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  152. We always have a bag of food to set out when the Boy Scouts or the mail carriers come around collecting for the foodbank. We donate all our good used stuff to a thrift store that supports a youth ranch, and we explain to the kids how their donated stuff helps.

    [email protected]

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  153. I teach them to donate clothes and food and volunteer for activites that are taking place in our community. Thanks for the chance, we love pancakes!

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  157. We work with my school and with the Boy Scouts a lot all year. We collect food, adopt a family, and collect for Toys for Tots.

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  162. I teach the kids to give back by showing how great they feel when they get someone and tell them that is how great other people feel when you give them something.

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  168. I teach my children to give back by volunteering on holidays and providing them an example of what it means to help other people out…….

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  171. Every year, we make Christmas bread or cookies for their teachers to show how much we appreciate them. We work at the Food Bank around the time of the food drives, we volunteer at the annual library book sale, and they USED donate a bunch of toys from their closet before Christmas so that underprivileged kids would have “new” toys, and my own kids would be making room for what they were going to get for Christmas. But now that thrift shops can’t sell toys anymore, we can’t do the last one. My kids are both thoughtful and caring, so hopefully I did enough!

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  182. My daughter has to select and donate some of her toys and clothes every month, and she gives a portion of her allowance to the charity of her choice.

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  191. we teach our children to give back by giving them an allowance but they have to donate 10% to charity or church and put 10% in savings

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  193. My children donate the toys they no longer use to Goodwill and we buy toys to give to Toys for Tots

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  197. I think kids learn by example- having the family volunteer at a food bank or animal shelter is one way for them to give back.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  203. We have Goodwill day where everyone has to pick 10 things they’d like to donate.. we have way too much stuff, but we help at least afew times a year!

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  212. Giving back has always been part of my children’s life. We’ve picked kids from the Christmas tree to buy them gifts, we’ve donated to food drives, and my teen son recently reforested a local park with 300 saplings as his Eagle Scout project. Thanks.

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  214. My son is too young for that lesson right now but I’ll be teaching him to donate and volunteer to help others.

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  217. We teach the kids to donate thier toys they don’t want anymore and the clothes they can’t wear to kids that really need them.

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  219. We let the kids do volunteer work and visit their great grandmother in the assisted living home

    ardy22 at earthlink dot net

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  224. “teach your children well’…. I don’t have any children but if I did they would learn by my example of volunteering at several different places.
    Thanks for the contest.

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