How young is too young to raise green children? And what exactly does this mean?
As parents we have an endless stream of information about behavior, food and products in order to live very healthy and proactively environmentalist lives; and this is true for us, and of course our children.
Yes, this means waisting less, recycling & reusing, trading our "disposable everything" habits for more sound practices (clothe diapers, wooden toys...). But it also means reading books with ecological messages, reading books about "real" animals in the wild world, about nature and environmental preservation. They are NOT too young to understand we all share one precious home called earth.
Children never cease to amaze with their sharp minds and generous understanding of concepts in which adults become tangled. Similar to the languages babies and young children learn with such apparent ease, environmental conservation is a language that will come naturally to your little one.
It is an interesting time in that adults are learning the language of environmentalism at the same time that we are teaching it to our children. Pretty soon, like all things digital, our children will be telling us the best practices...and as usual, we will be learning fro them.
We can and will raise a new generation of adults who do not think twice about building in environmental consequences into every decision they make...effortlessly. They will have learned very early, in the crib, in the stroller, in the park and the Zoo- what a vital role they will play in the future of our planet and its myriad and magnificent life forms.
So...no...it is never too early to lead yur babies down the road to "green-ness"- it is natural to life to want to protect and nurture one another...even little babies know this!
I get shivers thinking about it!
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