Teaching Our Children to Love Nature

Teaching Our Children to Love Nature

Below images:

Sophia's Vervet Monkeys - http://www.lillunia.com/-MOSAIC-ART/Sophia-s-Vervet-Monkeys-p73.html

Stella's Robins http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Stella-s-Robins-p55.html

At Lillunia, we are well aware of the importance of the natural world, both conceptually and materially, to our childrens' development. We encourage you to read a lovely little piece called which discusses this issue called:

Teaching Children to Love Nature - by Chaitanya Prakash at:
http://www.indiaparenting.com/intelligentchild/data/105.shtml

Chaitanya Prakash relates a genuine concern for the absense of nature in so many childrens' lives today. And as more and more families move to cities, nature will become more of a fantasy than a reality for children. Certainly most children in the world will never see Vervet Monkeys in their natural environment:

but sadly, today, more and more children will not even see Robins in thier natural environement.

It is our hope at Lillunia to bring a little bit of the natural world (from afar and from the garden) into our chidlren's environments from earliest childhood.

We believe that images that portray the universality of family nurturing in the wild will foster the kinds of responsible and caring adults we hope our children will become.

Bring the natural world into a child's environment with Lillunia Art and start them on a road of curiosity and exploration- of appreciation for the natural world and all of the creatures surrounding us.

Customize the art with a baby's birthdate and name for a truly memorable and prescious souvenir of a child's birth.

Please see the wonderful animals we portray at www.lillunia.com or ask us for a special animal of your choice!

Lead by Example- Babies are People Too

Patrick's Polar Bears http://www.lillunia.com/-MOSAIC-ART/Patrick-s-Polar-Bears-p75.html

Lead by Example- Babies are People Too!

There is no doubt that all children develop differently and at different rates. However, anyone with children, nieces and nephews, grandchildren or friends with children know that imitation is a fundamental part of how children learn and become socialized as adults.

As adults, we make so many choices for ourselves and for our children, and sometimes the necessities of life overshadow the kinds of subtle decisions we make every day- decisions that our VERY adept children detect even when we do not.

Many families are doing their best to "go green" or to be as ecologically minded as their time and budgets allow. This is a wonderful trend. Whatever we believe politically, religiously or even socially, we all can agree that we would like the natural world to thrive. We would like all of the animals we share the planet with to continue to be able to live and nurture their own families.

At Lillunia, we start with the belief that what we do really effects what are children will become. We know this as we make big and little decisions- for ourselves and for them.

At Lillunia we grow children's environment from ART-- Art based on natural scenes of animal family's in the wild. We want our children-- and your children to know about what is out there and why we do what we do each day to preserve this magical planet for them ... and for us!

Share Lillunia with your child today! www.lillunia.com

Art and Baby Brain Development

http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Brendan-s-Lions-p43.html brendan's lions

Lillunia - Baby Brain Development

"As few as twenty years ago scientists believed that the genes we were born with wholly determined the structure of our brains. The facts recently discovered by neurologists and psychologists, however, prove that how children develop, learn, and grow depends on the critical and continual interplay between nature (or genetic endowment) and nurture (the surroundings, care, stimulation, and teachings received); ... both of these influences are crucial." (US Dept of Education)

http://www.lillunia.com/-ART/Emily-s-Elephants-p54.html - emily's elephants

Studies have shown that the arts can awaken children's senses and make them more aware of the surrounding world with which they interact.
Exposing children to art from birth nurtures the intellectual process. This has been studied widely with respect to disadvantaged children and the benefits exposure to the arts has on their intellectual and emotional development. Such art exposure helps all children's social and cognitive advancement.

Grow with us!

Lillunia helps parents create stimulating and thought provoking children's environments with art that helps build children's environments where they will grow intellectually and emotionally.

Please visit us at www.lillunia.com