Easter is coming
Every Easter season, animal welfare organizations plead with people to stop buying pets for their children’s Easter basket, because so many of the animals end up being abandoned. I agree with them. If you don’t want a pet that will be with you for the rest of its life, don’t buy one. Pets are not toys.
However, I think that the gift of a bunny, lamb, or a fluffy little chick at Easter could be a great idea IF you give it through an organization like Heifer International, which provides livestock to people around the world that can benefit from them. For example, according to the Heifer web site chicks “can lay up to 200 eggs a year — a reliable source of protein for children who otherwise subsist mostly on starches”. Donations are tax deductible.
Good question. I have no idea really, but I imagine he’d either think it was cool or that it was no big deal.
Usually he gets a chocolate bunny, some jelly beans, a few miscellaneous pieces of candy. Maybe some change sometimes too.
I think a certificate attached to a chocolate bunny or a stuffed animal of the type you gave could be cool though. Which is kind of weird that I would think that, since normally I don’t get into the whole “donate in someone’s name” as a gift thing. This seems more tangible somehow though, and also I don’t usually give actual gifts for Easter so it would be an additional thing anyway.
What would your son say if that is what you gave him for Easter?
What do you usually do for him?