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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here--warm thanks to those with actual suggestions.  Please keep them coming.  I certainly understand that many obvious volunteer opportunities are not a fit for a 3-year old, which is why I was looking for creative ideas.  It is important to us to instill in him now that it is important for him to contribute to the world around him even as a little guy.

To those that felt the need to respond with incredibly negative, snarky, and flat out mean posts--please stop.  We make service and giving a priority year-round (including as our careers) and certainly don't view others that need help as a side-show.  I often find this community to be helpful and encouraging and am disappointed in the flurry of folks looking for something/someone to attack.[/quote]
If you made service a priority year round you wouldn’t be asking for opportunities 2 weeks before Christmas. You’d already have them because you’d have been working at them during the rest of the year. [/quote]

I'm not even sure why I'm bothering here, but there are some logical flaws in this argument.

1) Both volunteer orgs that I used to work with are closed over the holidays (one was a tutoring program for foster kids; the other was teaching language to adult English learners).  
2) Neither one of those orgs would have been appropriate to bring my kids along with anyway.

A holiday-specific volunteering opp suitable for kids is a different thing entirely.

At this point I'm just irritated by the lack of critical thinking by whomever keeps posting this.[/quote]

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