Green Living For Kids And How To Get Them Involved

My daughter recently came home from school the other day with a handout provided by her teacher that talked about the importance of adopting a green lifestyle to help both the environment and our local economy.

This presented me with a unique opportunity to speak to my daughter about different things that she could do, even though she is a child, to start leading a responsible green lifestyle. My daughter seemed interested in the subject, and so I decided that I would speak to my wife that we would come up with different activities that her daughter could do to get more involved with environmental activities.

The first thought that came to my mind was that my daughter could play a more active role within our household as it related to organizing the recyclable materials that were collected every single week. I realized that this was not a radical amount of responsibility, which suited my purposes.

I’ve always felt that parents can sometimes become a little bit too overly zealous about a particular issue or topic and that they run the risk of potentially alienating their child from that topic by coming on a little bit too strong. So I thought that it would make sense to see if my daughter we conscientiously gathered the recyclables and make sure that they were properly sorted every week.

Thankfully, my wife agreed with this idea. We both had an opportunity to speak to our daughter and she seemed very receptive. She even suggested that instead of getting rid of the banana peel from the banana that she typically took to school every day, she would instead add it to a compost pile that she wanted to begin keeping just outside our home. She encourage my wife and I to contribute appropriate table scraps for the compost pile.

To the extent you want your child to get involved with environmentalism and for them to become somewhat more conscious about green lifestyle choices, I encourage you to start with having them handle the recycling duties around your home or apartment.

It’s a conservative approach that will allow you to talk to them about important environmental issues without running as high of a risk of alienating them from the topic as a result of being to overbearing.

By: Suzanne Bucciarelli

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Suzanne Bucciarelli is the owner of Green Living Ezine and writes articles and tips on how to save money and go green at the same time. Read Over 125 Ways to Go Green and Save Money at Green Living Ezine.