Children have various recreational activities to boost their energy, brain, and development. The latest gazettes, traveling in motor cars, and modern technology have started to produce smart kids who already get on to tough competition from a young age.
They excel in everything except respecting the natural environment, this is easily taken for granted which may result in a shortage of environmental products in the future.
Why should you work on raising environment-conscious kids?
- Children will learn to share
- I will learn to recycle and reuse things
- Moral consciousness on misusing nature’s gift
- Boost their learning abilities
- Consciousness and Integrity
- Clean environment
- Adaptability
- Improves sustainability
Effective Ways to teach kids about the Environment
Kids start to gain curiosity from their crawling stage so since then, we need to instill the value of loving nature and respecting its sanctity. A 3-year-old should be conscious enough to switch off the bedroom light before leaving the room.
How is it possible to raise conscious children who readily accept the environment and would like to extend its glory with sacrifice and love? When you raise kids around animals, they will automatically start loving other animals also.
| Educating kids about our environment –Set proper examples –Allow them to explore and understand the surroundings –Teach them rules of preservation |
Set an example
Your child will follow what you do and would definitely turn deaf to what you say. Set an example by letting your child see the way you love green and try to remain conscious to keep the environment clean.
Lead with a good example that is easy to pick like watering the flowers, planting a tree, throwing a leftover wrapper inside the dustbin in a public park, etc. Your kid will always follow in your footsteps and will definitely gain environmental consciousness.
Spend More Time With Nature
It is mandatory to keep your kids in touch with nature. Take them out for a nice walk in the park, let them feel the greenery, and adore the beauty of nature.
Let them watch the birds chirping and singing, the insects buzzing and squeaking, water jumping with a fall, mountains standing high with pride, and frogs fluttering and dancing with rain. Let them feel and experience nature.
Close your faucet and turn the lights off!
Kids should decipher what preservation is. It’s good to close the faucet while rubbing your hands with a hand wash. To avoid Kitchen faucets, bathroom faucets, etc. Water is an important energy source and hence, it should not be wasted.
Kids should also learn from you to turn the lights off before leaving a particular room. Unnecessary usage or misusing of power will lead to future problems. However, inculcate the habit and your kids will do what they see.
Pick up the Trash Program
Ask your kids to put on gloves and carry a sanitizer with a big paper bag. This should be an activity to pick up trash like paper and plastic wrappers, bottles, and other items that have been left over. You will lead and your kids will actively make your locality clean and garbage free.
Three Rs’ (Reduce, Reuse, Recycling)
Three Rs’; namely reducing, reusing, and most significantly, recycling. You got to reduce the usage of products that cause harm to the environment, reuse an old product, and utilize the torn piece of bed sheet to recreate something beneficial.
Recycle ( Re-Do) the products that do not come to your use like an old book or a toy. It can be gifted to a lesser-deserved one.
| What are the three significant Rs’? –Reduce- Reduce littering, polluting, and wasting –Reuse- Reuse everything that can be reused –Recycle- Recycle things that can be used in some other form as opposed to wasting. |
Read books and Aid Through the internet
Try to show pictures of tea planting going or read out a good story from the internet to encourage an eco-friendly outlook. You can use visual aids like images to show the beauty of nature and how people need to maintain the goodness of nature.
Avoid the use of plastics
It is again important to show our kids that there are products that go against the safety of the environment. Plastics cause great harm so it’s best to use glass and paper. Avoid using plastic and point out its disadvantages so that your child picks on your belief.
Let your child witness the fruits of labor
When you ask your child to water a plant or turn off the electric appliances when not in use, then they might not know the reason for doing it.
When you show them a well-grown plant that they have watered or a less amount of electricity bill due to their consciousness of unplugging it while not in use, then they will definitely love to do more. Children tend to believe what they see rather than listen.
Reuse Scraps
Vegetable peeling, used tea leaves, fruit peeling, etc can be thrown in a compost pit that you can create in the backyard. Educate your child that it decreases the garbage in the house and also helps in increasing the soil with the use of organic fertilizers.
They will get to understand the value of natural scraps. Teaching them about the environment will help you raise compassionate kids.
Let them have a love for nature
It’s good to teach your child that flowers are to be adored and not to be picked, let them touch the bark of a tree or touch a waterproof leaf. A blade of grass can be used to create a whistle and the smell after rain, petrichor is the closest fragrance of the earth.
Tell them stories about how you loved the rain and how preserving rainwater could help you with many chores. Teach them to love nature and they will learn to respect it.
| How do make kids love nature? –Involve them in gardening activities. –Involve them to clean your house (as much as possible) Teach them to love animals |
Frequently Asked Questions on Teaching Kids About the Environment
How do schools encourage environmental learning?
Schools encourage taking classes under a tree or in the open-air garden to let the children feel the beauty of the environment outside the classroom setting. It makes them lively and active.
Is it a challenge to make kids nature/environment-conscious?
Kids these days are hooked to electronic gazettes. They love to sit in front of a computer or a mobile phone and continuously play games for longer hours. They will ruin their health and have no bonding with nature if they remain indoors all the time.
What is the easiest thing that you can do as a parent to make your child aware of the environment?
Just don’t litter. Your child watches you doing it and will assume there’s no harm to litter when parents are doing it likewise. Make them conscious to pick up the waste and how it makes a difference.
Verdict
April 22nd is celebrated as ‘Earth Day. You should celebrate the day with your child by doing some activity that recreates the beauty of flora and fauna. It can be a small activity that can be impactful for your child, so get involved to make your child go green.
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Mother of Two children. I’m a former teacher with a background in child development and a passion for Good parenting. I understand child development and know how to develop activities to help children learn and grow. Spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family, reading, and volunteering in my community.
