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How To Raise Tiny Advocates: Getting Kids Involved With The Environment
The brightest minds and strongest hands will be those that we raise today to build tomorrow’s future. What we teach them now is critically important to reshaping society’s priorities. You don’t have to indoctrinate your kids. How can you inspire them to care more about the environment? How can we raise environmental advocates, before the world pulls their focus?
Here are a few ways to show your children the path, and then let them walk it all on their own.
National parks and wildlife refuges often offer hands-on learning experiences where kids can get up close and personal with wildlife. Camp under starry skies, hold birds of prey at a raptor rescue — whatever inspires and whatever captivates, just do it as often as you can.
Ask kids that are of reading age to scan boxes for problem ingredients, and offer a prize for whoever finds the winning contender. Show toddlers the many colors of the organic produce section, and count together as you drop everything into your reusable bags.
It may take longer, but it’ll get your kids involved in one of the most critical forms of activism — that which happens at the consumer level.
Fill your child’s bookshelf with age-appropriate environmental kids’ books that keep the conversation going after dinner.
