How can i teach my children about their responsibility to protect the environment?
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The only way you can teach your child about anything is by living what you teach. If you tell your kids that smoking is bad and then chug down a whole pack in a day, you are a poor teacher. Recycle, donate old items instead of tossing them out, clean up your neighborhood, do more walking, all of those things will help the environment out!
It is our responsibility to teach our kids how to be responsible adults. You can do that by showing them that in order for them to live, they have to take care of WHERE they live...
Show them the Lion King 80 thousand times, and they'll be all, "Ohhh, the circle of life!" Then explain to them that they have a responsibility toward nature just like Simba.
With your example. You can teach them to recycle, and all things that protect our environment.
Lead by example.They will do as you do.Instill it into them when you and watch it grow as they do.
Don't waste your time or theirs. Let them be kids while they can. It will be drilled into their skulls by the rabid evo-teachers at school anyway.
Show them by your actions. Actions speak louder than words. This is why Al Gore and many celebrities have zero credibility when it comes to conservation. They don't practice what they preach.
I live in LA and this part of the neighborhood is terrible. The trash I see, there are always old sofas, beds and furniture left at the curb. I wonder what we are teaching our children when we do this. There's also harmful waste such as car battries.
We need to set a good example for our children.
Captain Planet!
First and foremost you should exhibit your responsibility for the environment in your daily life...for example I have started recycling and I've taught my children to put pop cans (which can be turned into cash-check with your local recycling center), tin cans, plastic bottles, boxes, and newspaper in the baskets that I have designated for them. I also have my kids help me take the recyclables to the city's recycling center and put them in. Children learn best from what their parents do...not from what they say.
Also I think it helps to make learning about protecting the environment fun. Try going to the epa website or do a search on fun environment learning opportunities for kids at google or ask.com.
In order to teach your children about protecting the environment you need to be willing to show by your own words, actions and behaviors. Start on familiar ground such as their home inside and out. The phase "reduce, re-use and recycle" are to me a mantra that has become a way of life. This may sound a bit crazy (and that has always worked for me) but I feel guilty if I throw away something that I KNOW can be recycled just because I am in a hurry. So far I have not needed to seek therapy for this "guilt" instead I retrieve the item in question and perform this most simplest of tasks and in doing so my children learn from me.
Point out the obvious impact the insensitivity of generations before have impacted the environment. Explain to them how pollution has affected the world today and how it puts them at risk. Talk to them about the possibility that they will have children of their own someday and how their own actions will affect the world their future children will live in.
If that's not an incentive then I don't know what is.
Show them by being a leader. Have them help you recycle. Make a fun game out of separating recyclables into the different bins, and discuss why recycling is so important to the environment. Go for walks with your kids to teach them things about our environment. Learn about things you see from grass to trees to cars. Talk about what makes them important to the environment (trees produce oxygen, food and shelter for animals, etc..) If you make respecting the environment a part of their daily life, they will want to protect it and understand why we need to. Have fun!!
Lead by example. Recycle and put the money saved in their piggy banks or bank account. Compost; even in an apartment, you can put a worm bin under the kitchen sink and most kids think that's pretty cool. You can take them to annual earth day celebrations, and nature centers, and get them out on kid-friendly trails to see some of the beauty nature provides.
There are a lot of kid-friendly books and resources. Check out www.acornnaturalists.com. They have a whole catalog of cool things for kids, and most of them are educational and promote awareness.
Talk to them about the importance of recycling, not littering and not wasting anything.
You can lead by your example, I can tell you are a good parent by wanting to teach them good habits. They will learn from you since most kids want to be like their parents. Just keep up the good example you are setting and talk to your kids and tell them the importance of putting trash in it's place when you do so. When you recycle explain why you are doing so and it's importance. They will learn very quickly and it will become second nature in no time.
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Easy enough don't you think?
By talking to them, like you teach them everything else.
But I do suggest talking to your children's teachers and school, see if they'll help, especially if they can take kids on a field trip to the local dump and recycling plant. That way kids can learn about why it's important to recycle, and what happens to the stuff when it gets put in the recycle bin.
Oh and show your kids nature, the woods, the great outdoors. They'll care more about it if it's more than something they see on TV.
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