When working with the homeless it can be very touching, rewarding and very emotional all together. Working with the homeless has a lot to offer your young adults today. If your young adult wants to help others then you should encourage them to do so.
It takes a special kind of person to do something like this not everyone can do this kind of work. You as parents are may be thinking that I don’t want my child around these kinds of people. If you are thinking this, then stop now, since you or a loved one in the future may face the same hardships. So be understanding and good things will come of it.
What are some of the rewards that can come out of working with the homeless?
Working with the homeless brings your child many rewards that can be noticed immediately. Think of the joy your child will experience if he or she helps a homeless person establish his or her own home.
Your young adult could make a friend for life. You may notice that one of the people didn’t talk when you first met them but now your seeing a different and they want to talk to your child about things.
You as a young adult will also notice that you do have feelings, you make time in your heart to make time for the homeless. You also have to make a time for these people for they will be counting on you to show up when you tell them your going to.
As a young adult, you will also notice you have develop good communication skills. Communication is very important.
The homeless may need someone to talk to and you are the one that they count on to listen. This is a learning experience for everyone that is involved with working with the homeless people.
What other ways can my young adult help the homeless?
Some of the things that your young adult can do to help the homeless would friends to the homeless. Every one needs a friend and most of the time people look down on these kinds of peoples and don’t want to be a friend at all which I think is to sad. Your child then will learn the value of friendship.
You might want to take them to movie, play games with them; just spending time with them means the world to these suffering souls.
While working at the homeless shelter, your child can learn to cook as well as serve meals. How to communicate, this is the most important thing to learn, since your child will develop skills that they can use to teach other responsibility, which in turn helps everyone.
What can I do as a parent to help my young adult while working with the homeless?
As parents all, we can do to help our young adults other than to be there to listen to them. Helping the homeless is a very emotional job, and some times, they need someone to lean on to get them through the bad and good times.
Help with things like dinners at Christmas time. Help serve the food, or to be there to help with what ever it may take to support your young adult. If your young adult needs a ride to the shelter, take them, help out when ever its possible to do. You as parents need to understand that this is not a job for anyone it takes a special person with a big heart to do something like this so being patient would be helpful. Maybe your child would like to learn Taekwondo?
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