While outside play may appear to be a routine day outdoors, it can easily turn into an opportunity to raise our next generation of environmentally aware kids. Environmental literacy can build academic and social skills, strengthen healthy minds and bodies, and create a generational exchange.
How you can introduce your child to sustainability through play
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World Environment Day takes place on 5 June â the perfect opportunity to introduce your little ones to a more eco-friendly way of play.
Want to teach your children about the benefits of learning and understanding green living and the environment? We spoke to the experts to find out more.
It s never too early to start building a love for the environment in children.
Teaching green ways early
We might think that teaching kids to look after the world when theyâre still discovering it is too big a task. But actually, research suggests that starting early can help develop a sense of nurturing and care in your children.
A CLIMATE change expert from Aberaeron has published a book which a leading academic says he hopes will be ‘a turning of the tide’. In ‘Great Adaptions’, Dr Morgan Phillips recounts stories of adaptation from the air-conditioned pavements of Doha and the feral camels of Australia, to the ‘cool rooms’ of Paris and the ‘fog catchers’ of Morocco. The book – which ‘presses home the need for adaptations that are ecologically restorative and socially just’ - has been described as ‘a call to action’. Prof Rupert Read, of the University of East Anglia, said: “My earnest hope is that this book will be a turning of the tide; and that, with the silence broken, the world can finally begin the painful process of awakening properly to climate reality.