Agreed, when I was 12 a friend of a friend moved to India and was raped by a taxi driver on the first day. Another girl at my school visited relatives in a 3rd world country and witnessed a bombing (thankfully she was unharmed.)
I’m all for teaching young people perspective and gratitude for their privileges but I think there are much safer ways of doing so. For instance when I was in secondary school a church group ran a weekend camp where we lived as though we were in a slum for a few days to make us aware of the first world luxuries we take for granted.
Taking my kids to third world country
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Consider that there may actually be real danger to the kids, like diseases or high crime rate
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Agreed, when I was 12 a friend of a friend moved to India and was raped by a taxi driver on the first day. Another girl at my school visited relatives in a 3rd world country and witnessed a bombing (thankfully she was unharmed.)
I’m all for teaching young people perspective and gratitude for their privileges but I think there are much safer ways of doing so. For instance when I was in secondary school a church group ran a weekend camp where we lived as though we were in a slum for a few days to make us aware of the first world luxuries we take for granted.