 Honestly, my eight year old has no clue. She thinks recycling is when you leave something NEAR the trash can and not inside of it, for her Dad to clean up later. I seriously considered a nice long lecture on the importance of recycling to the environment, but being the 'Love and Logic' parent that I am, I decided that this is a brilliant opportunity for Allie (my 8 year old) to find out the true meaning of 'Recycling' and what it means to her world. First things first, she had to bag up the cardboard. A total of 5 cereal boxes and one chocolate covered cherry box (that's a whole other story..). Fussing and complaining the entire time (maybe 2 minutes), she did complete the task, but sure didn't enjoy it. I guess I don't expect her to fall in love with recycling- it's a dirty job- but someone has to do it thus my newest quest: HOW TO GET ALLIE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH RECYCLING *aka* HOW TO GET YOUR KIDS TO RECYCLE WITH A SMILE Wish me luck! Cass CommentsThis must be something they're starting to cover in school. Kaela was talking about it over the weekend. She was asking me if we recycled. Of course, I told her yes. That's the garbage can I have her put her cans and paper, etc in that's out in the garage. She said, "Good" and proceeded to walk off. At least I have 1 more person in our family on our side. My parents have been doing it for a long time. I need to get my in-laws doing it especially with the number of catalogs and newspapers they get. Sean 03/02/2010 14:20
Ever since the invention of Earth Day, the public school system manages to beat the concept of recycling into you. I would suspect that it would be even more intense for our current school-agers of today, but perhaps it is taught a little later. At the time, the biggest motivation was that you could get money for it, and it was really saved for aluminum cans, while plastic and cardboard gave no return. Also, I dont know how much 8 yearolds think outside of themselves, which may also play into it. Leave a Reply |   CategoriesAll ArchivesJanuary 2012 CategoriesAll |
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