DAY TWENTY - Give First, Happy Hanukkah, Merry GIVE-mas, Santa news and more

Welcome to the podcast! We are on Day 20 - this is going by really fast!

Our topic today covers Giving to Others

Today we look at giving to others being a giving person is very special

Christmas can be a time of great excitement and mystery

We can't wait to see the gifts piled around the tree

We enjoy giving and receiving gifts

but what if there was a gift that did not come wrapped in a box with shiny christmas wrapping paper, no bow, and it didn't rattle around in the box when yo shook it?

Giving first before getting isn’t always easy us to understand when we are young.

When we give, we focus on others and today we are going to look at 4 ways that we can continue to be generous throughout the year.

1. The Joy of Giving

can you be just as happy giving a gift this year as you are receiving one?

when we find joy in giving we unlock joy in our lives

giving to others is not just a one day christmas event - it can be everyday

2. Share your Talents

Giving doesn't always require money, a store or a purchase - you can give something that nobody else can give - you are unique and special.

what is one thing you are awesome at doing - play the piano, write a poem? Be creative - because giving does not always cost money

3. Generous with Time

We love to do, what we love to do

when we put away the things that we want to do - like our phones, tablets and gaming - we create time for others

time is valuable because they don't make more of it

who can you give more of your time to?

4. Generous with Kindness

Be generous and kind with your words

your words can make people strong or weak

give back to others by building them up and making others around you important

Let's give our best this year, even if it does not come from a store

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DAY NINETEEN - Be Helpful, Selfie shares a Santa Secret, Listener messages, News and more

Selfie shares the secret to how Santa's sleigh is powered! We get some listener messages today, Big news out of the North Pole and Santa is caught napping!

We learn about being helpful today

are you a helpful person?

Do you help others? Helping provides them the opportunity to grow up to be a better person.

when we help others we build up our character.

Christmas is often associated with giving and sharing.

There is nothing more meaningful and fulfilling then to be generous to those in need especially this time of the year.

This is why Christmas is also the best time to help others.

Here are five reasons why helping others will actually benefit everyone:

1. Helping others will help us to see life differently.

Helping others will allow them us to see the world beyond our daily life.

Being helpful will help to teach us to be thankful for what we do have and to be happy in the simple things.

This Christmas, help them realize this by donating their old toys to someone that does not have what we have.

2. Helping others will teach us about sharing

Sharing their time, talent and treasures will help them realize that Christmas is not about how much they will receive but how much they can give.

That whatever material or financial “excesses” we may have in life will have more meaning when shared with others in need.

3. Helping others makes us aware of our community

Make it a Christmas tradition to do random acts of kindness such as giving a bottle of water to a tired security guard in a mall or sending a greeting card to a neighbor or friend who may be alone this season.

4. Helping others creates more compassion and humility.

we need to learn to care.

Being exposed to helping others will help us to be humble instead of thinking too highly of ourselves.

We will also learn to be more sensitive to the needs of others rather than being too pre-occupied with what will only benefit them.

Make a list together as a family of the people they wish to help and how they think they can help them.

5. Helping others will lead to real happiness.

Helping others creates happiness for all.

Knowing that we have made another person happy will allow everyone to experience real joy in their hearts.

Try this!

Try being a “secret Santa” to one person that you wish to make happy.

Start with someone in your family, or a neighbor, or even a playmate.

you are never too young or too old to be helpful

Santa is watching, let's be helpful today!

Selfie, how do you help others?

Santa how can we help at home? What can we do?

Thanks everyone - let's be super helpful today!

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DAY EIGHTEEN - Forgive Others, A Post Turtle, Selfie's Story , North Pole news and more

Welcome back to Day 18! Today we look at forgiveness - why it is important for all of us to forgive others!

Selfie shares a story about a carrot and a lie

We find out what a Post Turtle is and we look at our topic of forgiveness by talking about...

10 Ways to to Forgive others

1. Forgiveness with no conditions

forgive regardless of the other person’s response - forgiving someone for what they have done or said is more for us than for them really - we stop letting what they have done hurt us when we forgive and let it go

2. It’s Not About Being Right

When you forgive someone, it should never be about being right.

3 No rules

By placing rules on our forgiveness, we are not truly forgiving.

“If you make my bed for the next week I will forgive you.”

That’s not forgiveness.

Forgiveness is given without rules or conditions.

4. It might take time

forgiveness can't be forced.

when it forced, we really don’t mean it, nothing gets solved.

Give it time.

5. there are always 2 sides to forgiveness

We really only see our side of an issue.

We need to be able to see things from the other side.

Our side is only part of the story.

Forgiving is much easier when we know the whole story and not just half of it.

6. Don’t hide forgiveness

when we don't forgive, it can lead to all sorts of future problems.

we start to not like people that we haven't forgiven

we see someone that we haven't forgiven and we turn and walk the other way - we don't even want to see them, or talk to them, ever again.

this can be painful for you and the other person

Forgiveness is like a bridge that connects two people that have been separated

7. The Inside Eventually Comes Pouring Out

when we don't forgive people it can change us and make us not a fun person to be around - we become part of the problem over time

8. Teach Them To Serve

Giving forgiveness helps us to be humble and not proud.

be mindful of the needs of others.

9. The Golden Rule

“Treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves.”

what if we made a mistake and dis something wrong - how would we want the other person to treat us? Would we want their forgiveness if we made the mistake?

however we want to be treated, we need to treat people in the same way

10. forgiveness doesn't Keeping score

we all want to be forgiven. Then tell them to do likewise.

Forgiveness is not like sports

In sports we keep score of the points - we put the score up on the board so that all can see

Some people keep score of all the bad things that other people have done and do not forgive and let it go! When we throw away the bad thing that happened, it means we don’t remind the person again that they did it. It means we start over.

Our homework today - to think of one person that we need to forgive and then tell them that we forgive them

forgiveness is a great way to stay on Santa's nice list.

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