Living Green Lessons For Our Children
How important is it to teach our children about green energy, living green and reducing our carbon footprint? The future of our children depends on it!
It is the responsibility of all parents to teach our children the importance of living an eco-friendly life. It has to be now, before its too late. Sounds corny, but it’s true. But we have a good chance if we start teaching them at a very young age. Children are like sponges when it comes to learning, and they imitate what they see.
If children see their parents shutting off lights, recycling trash and composting the dinner scraps, they will get a sense of what do to without even realizing it. As they get older, we as parents, can educate them in how to live a life of “green living” by explaining what and why we do these things.
Our elementary schools do a good job at teaching our children about saving energy and living green. But we need to bridge the gap from infancy to the school years. But it doesn’t help if we don’t practice what we preach.
As our children get older, we as parents need emphasize the important of living an eco-friendly life. We need to explain that humanity has made mistakes that need to be reversed to make the planet healthier.
It will take more than one generation to change things around but we have to start somewhere - and its got to be now - with our children, while there is still time.
