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Save the Earth

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

From Wednesday Mom – Janelle:
Earth Day is a great day to teach kids about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling.  Most importantly, I want to teach my children how they can play an active part in taking good care of our planet.  Our children are the future, and we can help them make a difference by keeping our planet clean.

This Earth Day, I am emphasizing to my kids that small daily habits over time can make the biggest impact in preserving our planet.  I do my best to show Jack and Tate what items we can recycle by placing them in our recycling bin.  Sure it’s easier to just throw everything out, but a few extra seconds sorting our trash can really make a difference over time.  We reuse household items like boxes and paper towel tubes for kids’ crafts.  They use their imagination and creativity to build robots and suits of armor. It may only last an afternoon, but it was a perfect way to reuse materials.

Unfortunately, our family is guilty of over using paper products at times.  I need to work harder at limiting the number of paper towel rolls I use and reduce the amount of packaging we purchase. My husband may be the messiest person in the house, but he is better about using regular cloth kitchen towels to clean up.

We are practical about environmentalism, especially if it saves us money.  My goal is to instill some basic earth-friendly habits in my children when they’re young.  Once they grow older these learned behaviors will come naturally to them.  I want the best for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren by doing what we can now to preserve our planet Earth.