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Iwas thinking about habits the other day, how they turn into routines. In the fall, my coworker Laura mentioned that she was collecting pull tabs (from the tops of aluminum soda cans) for charity. They are small, dense and easily recyclable, so you can redeem them for money. Along with her cohort at the National Charity League, Laura has been collecting them to benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities.

I mentioned it to my kids, and my youngest has really run with it. She comes home with pull tabs in her backpack from the elementary school cafeteria. She and her friends pull trash out of the creek, carefully pulling the tabs off of any cans before the rest goes into the garbage or recycling bin. I find pull tabs in her pockets when I do the laundry. She paws through our recycling, making sure we didn’t miss any pull tabs from the cat food cans.

I hope this little habit will stick with her, a reminder that little efforts add up and make a difference. Surely, this is the first step in raising her into a civicminded adult?

Another habit we’ve been building over the last year is getting the girls to practice their musical instruments. They started the violin and piano in February of last year. At first, getting them to practice was torture; I spent more time reminding, cajoling and threatening than they did making music.

So at a teacher’s suggestion, we started an old-fashioned paper chart with 100 boxes on it. If they could practice 10 days in a row, they’d get ice cream. After 25, a trip to the dollar store. Fifty, we’d get our nails done. And so on. I truly did not think they would make it to 10, based on the struggles we were having — but they did! Twenty-five came surprisingly quickly, and so did 50. Now, they’ve completed their first 100 chart and are almost through with the second.

Practicing every day has become a habit, just like brushing their teeth and doing Wordle in the morning. We just celebrated their one-year violinaversary and piano-versary (words that have not caught on, despite my best efforts) and they each have a nice little repertoire to pull out for the grandparents on FaceTime. My older one has even taken her violin on a train and an airplane!

So far, Laura and her team are 29 pounds towards their goal of collecting 100 pounds of pull tabs. Email me at ayn-monique@waltermagazine.com if you want to contribute!

Ayn-Monique Klahre Editor

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