By: Christine Toorinjian
Everyone knows the saying, "You can't teach an old
dog new tricks", right? Well, now you do, though it's not too relevant to
what I'm about to say. Forget about old dogs and start teaching new ones! If
you're confused about what this means, just keep reading! What I mean is to
start getting your kids, or younger cousins, or neighbor's kid, or just even
any kid that you know (or don't), into a greener lifestyle. Be a green role
model. Be a green super hero. Do anything to get the kids interested. As long
as they're sort of showing an understanding of what you are saying/doing, you
know that your making progress! If not, then try using smaller words. That
always helps! Anyways, the objective for this "Go Green Tips" blog is
to train you, (the old dogs), how to train the kids, (the new dogs). So get
some toys and treats, and let's start training!
So let's start with some at home
activities to get the ball rolling. There are many simple things that you can
doin front of your kids to get them into the habit of doing it too. Hey, you
know what they say: Monkey see, monkey do! NOT that your kids are monkies or
anything... ANYWAYS, examples of things to do to show your kids how to stay
green is by turning the water off when you're brushing your teeth and usiing
fans instead of turning on the A/C. All
simple things like that. Even just turning off the light when you're leaving a
room can make a huge difference. When your kids see you doing this consistently
and constantly, they'll start getting into the groove of it too, and you know
that all kids only want to be just like their parents! Successful in life. So
when they see someone who has been through it all, who has gone through the
motions, don't you think that they're going to want to be JUST like that?
Someone who has gone through all of the trials and tribulations of life doing
simple things like turning off the light when they leave the room. When they
seet this, the first thing that is going to run through their minds is I want
to do that. I want to be just like that person. I'm going to do this so that I
can be. So really, what you do, really does affect the others around you. So
are you going to lead your kids to a greener lifestyle where they are aware and
respectful of the Earth? Or are you going to lead them to a life of an
energy-sucking, water-wasting, pollution producing slob, where all they know is
to take and take and take, but to never give? The time starts now to change, so
use it wisely.
Now let's move on to some community
activities. Encourage your child to volunteer and get involved with school
programs, where they reach your kids about how to take care of the Earth. How
to treat it. How to give back to it. Suggest that they should join maybe the
school's garden club or sign up for classes on the environment. Take them to
workshops, the Hawaii Nature Center in Maikiki Heights, local farms. The
possibilities are endless. The only thing that you have to worry about is that
is keeping their interest in the environent. I mean what use is it to make them
go to all of these classes, the workshops, the clubs, if they aren't interested
on what they are trying to teach? This is the key thing. You have to get them
interested in a green lifestyle and keep them interested. For the younger ones
you could say that they'll recognized as super heroes if they don't turn on the
A/C for a whol hour. For the older ones you could say that it helps prevent
pimples! Not really, but I'm pretty sure that you can come up with something!
Overall, we just wanted to tell you
to start getting kids into that greener lifestyle now before it's too late.
Start making those little things habits now so that later, they won't need to
be. Just encourage, smile, and go green!
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