Yesterday I had the nicest experience of talking to my youngest about the 3 R's (reduce, reuse recycle). It was great to see him understand why we need to do it and to suggest ways our household could help out. One of those great teachable moments!
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Although I'm not normally in favour of kids TV and videos etc, one television character that we like in our house is Bob the Builder (our son's obsessed with diggers). The stories are good, but from a green perspective it's great to see that they promote the 3 R's and the characters are often working out how to implement this within their building projects.
Since our son was mobile we've encouraged him to bin things correctly - recycling in the white bin and everything else in the other one. He now asks when he's not sure and generally gets it right, which is great to see.
I find there is a lot of waste from kids (who doesn't!) especially one that likes drawing and cutting, so we have 2 paper piles - one is good paper for drawing / sticking on and the other is the works that are "complete" but not good enough to go on the wall, and they get cut up and put onto new pictures. He's at the stage of learning how to control the scissors, so alsorts gets the chop! Newspaper, magazines, free posters..... a lot of paper goes through him somehow as there's no point in getting good quality paper at this age.
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