great idea on making your kids think twice...

I got into a conversation with a friend of mine at work about my hopeful mission trip to Ecuador. I was telling her how I wished I could take my girls and have them learn a thing or two. " My girls really have no idea how good they have it" , I was saying. They always want more. Im so hell bent on trying to get my girls to follow Jesus and want to help and love onto others. Am I crazy to want this at their age??? Its mainly the older one who is very into her friends, clothes, jonas brothers and hanna montana...like OMG!!!...LOL. ANyway My friend Laurie told me this story about her friend. Her friend Bobby Jo was married to a very wealthy family. SO wealthy that she ended up leaving her husband because she was unable to have a life because the whole family made one for her and never let her make decisions. It was all based on fortune and fame and prestige. She had a daughter from this marriage. She had since remarried and had 2 other kids. Her oldest daugher is with her dad every other weekend as usual in divorces. For her birthdays and Christmas between the dad and her grandmother she was spoiled rotten.. Anything she wanted she got. She may as well have been Paris Hilton. When she returned home she was horrible because her mom and step dad were no match for the gifts given to her. One birthday her mom asked her after she got home from receiving lavish gifts form daddy and said I thought for your birthday we could go shopping, you can buy 5 outfits and well go to lunch! Her daughter was ecstatic!! They went to all of her favorite stores, she picked out her favorite clothes all 5 outfits were to die for. Then when they got into the car her mom said "ok..now all of those outfits you just got, were going down to the rescue mission a nd youre going to give those to 5 girls who need them." The daughter obvioulsly stunned thought her mom was crazy, but her mom stood strong on it. "and youre going to give it them with a smile on your face" This girl was 10 years old at this time. So they did....and she did. Then her mom said(with permission from the mission and a chaperone) she took all five girls out with them for lunch. After the whole day was over...her daughter was pretty quiet in the car until she looked over at her mom and said" mom....do people really live like this? they really have nothing?" Isnt that amazing what this mom did for her daughter???? She is 15 now and do you know she goes ON HER OWN to the rescue mission and helps out and donates every year since! What a christ-like example this mother showed to her kids! Again...I can only hope that I can do this for my own girls....anyone in for trying????...all part of my divine flick im getting...