3 Ways to Teach Children Eco-friendly Habits
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If we want the next generation to carry on the banner of eco-friendly living, we need to teach them about eco-friendly living. Catch them young and they will carry on the practice through the rest of their lives. If children learn to value and protect the world they live in, only then they can help to safeguard it for the following generation. They will become staunch supporters for safeguarding nature. Sharing the simplest- 3 Ways to Teach Children About Eco-friendly Habits.
What is the ecosystem?
The earth’s innate collective resources are; plants, animals, atmosphere, land, water and we humans. Every single thing we humans do impacts the world in which we live. We have depleting resources so do we have the power to obliterate or create. Children are like clay and their minds can be steered to build, nurture, and value our world.
3 Ways to Teach Children Eco-friendly Habits
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Cultivate Respect For Nature
When kids are taught to value nature from childhood, they’re plausibly going to carry on the respect for nature, even when they’re older. The best way to start is in your garden, teach them. Encourage your kids to plant seeds and nurture them, and trees or flowers. Set up attractive birdbaths and birdfeeders-kids will be fascinated with the feathered friends. Encourage them to help you water the plants, refill the birdbath or gather the dry leaves. Simple steps like 3 Ways to Teach Children Eco-friendly Habits are a great start.
After this, make them familiar with the extensive environment outside of your house. They will be thrilled with the beauty. Plan family holidays to sanctuaries, zoos or even the seaside. They will be excited to see diverse animals and their habitat. Teach the kids about soil erosion and how it affects the environment. This will create curiosity and an urge to nurture and preserve our blessed world.
Follow this Chinese Proverb to Teach Them Eco-friendly Methods
“Tell me and I will forget
Show me and I will remember
Involve me and I will understand”
3. Recycle Consistently
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Reusing or recycling is one of the simplest actions a single-family and conglomerates can do to lessen the negative effect of humans on the planet. Whilst few factories do recycle, even individuals can make a significant contribution. These days most housing societies have made it mandatory to recycle and separate trash bins. Ensure that your family follows these rules of the commune; green bin for biodegradable waste, blue for wet waste and black for hazardous waste so that it can be recycled.
When you get into the right recycling practice, inculcate the same habit in your kids. Guide them to segregate assorted recyclables. Tag them along when you go out to dispose of the different containers. Once they grow up, hand over the responsibility of sorting and taking the recyclables. Taking this activity further, get into the habit of composting and using reusable products and add to sustaining the environment.
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Be Energy Conscious
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You can minimize your carbon footprint by being energy conscious. It is good for Mother Earth and easy on the pocket. Every home, office, industry consumes a lot of energy. This naturally affects the environment negatively. Typically, in most homes, the energy bills are skyrocketing. Children learn by watching their elders and imitating them. If you turn off everything that works on electricity when not in use, they will follow suit.
3 Ways to Teach Children Eco-friendly Habits
Try to explain and teach the kids why it is essential to conserve energy. Kids think that the energy we use is inexhaustible but if you explain to them that it is imperative to conserve energy, they will realize this. The simplest way to conserve energy is by switching off the lights when you leave the room, powering off, all the gadgets when not in use.
Encourage children to take on an active role in eco-friendly activities. Get them to grow a green thumb or support animal rights groups. If all goes well, the kids will transfer their enthusiasm further and forge a new band of eco-fighters. Fortunately, it is quite easy to find ways to conserve energy and help the world to be a better place.
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Nice and important tips Harjeet. I wish every parent reads this post of yours.
Thank you, Suhasini. Wish the whole world does.
I have done planting of plants with kids on their birthdays. its been 2 years we started. since then it is being a mandatory thing to do on each of our birthdays
Eco friendly is the need that is compulsory essential. A good post with great pointers to save our Mother earth.
We worry about nature but fail to imbibe eco friendly habits in our children. These are practical and important suggestions.
A very useful post. You are correct. Children are like clay and we should shape them the best way we can. Teaching them good values.
Everything you’ve shared is do-able Harjeet and I too believe that with kids its ‘it’s now or never’ In our society we structkybfollpow garbage segregation n thankfully our kids already know what to put where and for what reason. But yes, they are clumsy in matters of energy conservation. Your post reminded me about how important it is to teach them all these things young.
I have made note of that Chinese proverb as it made me think. These are super helpful tips.
Such lovely values and habits to inculcate in kids for a better world ahead. Worth following and adopting by everyone.
This is great! I plan to teach my baby niece these tips when she is older so thank you for sharing. it’s important for children to learn at an early age
Loved your post, love to see more and more environment enthusiasts. 😊We follow all these as family and also many more things like we say no to plastic, we don’t use tissue but, a cloth napkin, we carry our own shopping bags, cutlery, water bottles, napkins. We don’t buy until it’s necessary. No impulse buying. I make floor cleaner at home. We save seeds and throw near highways while traveling. 🙂
Teaching kids about their responsibility towards nature from young age will surely make them respect and love it better.
Thought I missed ur second point, then realized the number 3 was repeated, the post is very valuable keeping in mind the future and there are many initiatives taken up by schools and other communities for the same purpose. Good realisation.
Kids are our future and inculcating such habits can lead to better future living. These are some great suggestions and every parent should make an effort to teach their kids.
A very important post. Kids are going to inherit this earth from us, however damaged. And we need to teach them from an early age to save the environment.
Great post! This way we can inculcate the knowledge and love for nature in the next generation. Your posts are always very informative be it travel posts or recipes or posts like these. You grandchildren are very lucky.
It is indeed necessary that we start inculcating such habits in our kids from the very beginning so that tomorrow they grow up to become responsible individuals.
Great tips Harjeet. and luckily, I follow these with my girls. recycling is our personal favorite, we have made many recycling projects and it feel really great when we transform trash into a treasure.
It is always about starting from the day to day activities. I have replaced all my plastic toothbrushes with bamboo ones which made my kids aware of the harmful effects of plastic on mother earth.
Something very important that every parent must choose to. Teach their kids. Thanks for sharing
Love how You discussed an important topic!
Your tips are amazing. It’s for everyone who has a kid at home.
Raising kids with environment responsibility is very important and practising the habits that keep environment in safer hands is a perfect way to inculcate habits.
Both my kids have been taught to respect nature but somehow my 5yr old son has grasped it very well. HE always talks about keeping the planet clean and even tells off people to not throw things on the road if he catches them doing so. It makes me feel so proud.
Our kids are future. Teaching them right values will make this world a beautiful place. Such a nice post and great tips to share with our future generation.
How wonderful Harjeet – these are the kind of posts which are truly the need of the hour. I too try and inculcate eco-conscious habits in my son while he is still at an impressionable age.
It is important to teach the next generation if we want them to have any semblance of a good environment. Eco friendly habits are necessary to be inculcated from young itself so that it becomes a way of life for them.
The way to protect our environment is to actively participate and ensure to pass on the vigour to the the next generation.
This is one of the sides of parenting. I really a thoughtful post. We should inculcate the habit of loving and respecting nature in children since their childhood.
Wonderful post.i was searching for something like this ..as i wanted to make my kids learn different things through stories.but making them to do practically will make wonders .thank you for this .