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Raising the Next Generation of Earth-Conscious Children
We don’t have cable TV in our house so my children are sheltered from the evening news. But they do still hear, through conversations with other children, listening in on adult conversations, and listening to the radio that the world they live in isn’t as perfect as they thought it was. A broadcast on CBC radio about the oil leak in the gulf caught my son’s attention yesterday. He started asking questions and I wasn’t prepared for them. The implications of this human-caused natural disaster are immense. It made me wonder, what should I tell my almost 5 year old? How do I teach my children to make choices which reflect a sense of compassion for the planet? I’ve been thinking about how to explain things to him ever since. I don’t want to frighten him, nor do I want to paint a picture of doom and gloom from which he will feel powerless. I want to help him see the planet-friendly choices he can make on a daily basis. I hope he will appreciate and cherish all the beauty that surrounds him.
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The Great Diaper Debate
When I was pregnant with my first son there were so many decisions ahead of me that I felt like I was swimming in them! Names, bedroom colours, type of crib, and so on and so on, but there was one decision that I made pretty readily – I knew I wanted to cloth diaper.
