Nature is the core of our entire existence. That is why we need to teach our children to respect this because we cannot survive without water to be without plants that feed us and purify our air, there are no animals to feed us and accompany us.
ways to teach your child environmental responsibility:
- Be consistent and learn yourself first. Don't demand of your child what you don't do yourself.
- Teach children to use reusable containers: for snacks, for foods that are kept in the refrigerator. Explain that even a small reduction in global plastic can save the lives of animals and plants, as well as our lives.
- Watch some age appropriate nature and ecology cartoons with him.
- They can plant a plant together so that the child can take care of it, and see a pea or bean sprout. This is a fun way to learn how plants need sun, water, and soil.
- Clean the beach or forest when you have a picnic both before you sit there and after you are done. Show your child that the beach and the ocean are home to many beautiful animals and plants.
- Teach him to respect nature. Read together books about the life of animals, plants and insects, programs about animals, how people can help you.
Speak to your child in a way that he understands well and sets a good example.
Younger children are more interested in the world and what their parents have to say. Therefore, as often as possible, take your children to the forest and teach them the natural world. Watch the birds, admire the plants. If you have a garden or balcony, plant vegetables or herbs together. A two-year-old will already rejoice at the opportunity to water the plant and see how it grows, and as a result, she will happily eat what she has grown alone.
We don't need to talk directly about these issues with children every day, but they need to know the consequences of our actions; That is why it is important for them to know that all our actions affect nature.