Community Contribution Protocol: Fostering Civic Responsibility in Youth
The Saturday morning my ten-year-old son Ethan complained about having to help clear brush from our local neighborhood park, claiming it 'wasn't his job' because he didn't throw it there, I realized our family system was insular. He had no sense of community ownership. I realized that by not involving him in service, we were raising him to be a consumer of public spaces rather than a steward of them. ...