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I need help. How do you eventually answer a 5 year- olds question. If humans need water, why do we polutte it? He's gonna ask.I teach him to not litter, and soon he will ask about all the refuse we see on our way to the bus stop. I guess it all starts with choice. "Some people chose to litter" Fortunately, last year I made big headway on teaching him where food comes from. We got a community garden plot for $10. He loved squirting the hose and I think it eventually sunk in the the plants were thirsty. I think it even might have registered that we didn't have to go, due to a thunderstorm.Who knows? If I stick around longer, the idea of a grocery store existing, when we can grow our own food might evolve.
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5 years old. Keep it simple. People don't choose to litter ....they just don't care about the mess they make or the effect it has. It's less effort than not littering and they are lazy. Simples.
5-year-olds imitate the people close to them: family, guardian ,teachers etc They observe and then they imitate. That's how they learn;good and bad.
If you dispose of your trash conscientiously, respecting others and the planet, then so will your 5-year-old.
Modified by lexy at Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 15:44:42
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Thanks Lesley. I know all that, and feel most guilty about cigarettes. I tried again to quit during their holiday absence but only lasted a day and a half. I'm off to the bus station now to meet them and help carry the suitcases home. School doesn't restart until the 10th. I'm guessing after Kindergarten he might go to special ed, as he doesn't speak English that well and the government here insiststed he go to French school.
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Good point, I got my L's mixed up, but happy new year to all. I think this forum increases my paranoia. Now that we are well aware of the Islam threat, what the hell can we do about it?
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My parents were the post 1930s adults of whom many smoked. My Mum loved the movies where, at that time ,many stars puffed away on screen ( think Bogart, Bacall, Gable and others ) and made it glamorous. My parents were rarely without cigarettes in their mouth. Five of their six children followed suit....the only one of us who never smoked, my sister Rosalind, sadly died of cancer aged 59.
Happily we have all stopped smoking now except my younger sister.
I gave up in honour of my sister when she died. I stopped like that and avoided friends and family who smoked ( more or less ) for at least six months after which I had kicked the habit. Now it seems a very strange thing to do and seldom ever enters my head. Make it a New Years Resolution Auggie, and good luck to you.
P.S. Don't be paranoid about Muslims.....I kind of prefer when I was blissfully ignorant about what was really going on....now I am not paranoid, just a bit more cautious. I taught muslims for years....mostly lovely people but with important parts of their education left out. I stopped telling my students that I was of a Jewish background after 9/11. I no longer felt safe and that feeling has only got worse. What's that about ??
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I was around smokers a lot in my youth, but was adamant about not letting people smoke in my car or home, until about age 24. I spent over a month in jail in georgia for a tiny bit of pot, and came out a smoker. I'm not paranoid about Muslims in my day to day life, we have plenty here and I think Canada is less of a target since we voted out the conservatives and stopped bombing them. We still have "military advisors " whatever that means, and I believe Canada is the 3rd largest selling nation of arms to the middle east. Thanks for the encouragement and good luck to you too!
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Thanks Lesley. I know all that, and feel most guilty about cigarettes. I tried again to quit during their holiday absence but only lasted a day and a half. I'm off to the bus station now to meet them and help carry the suitcases home. School doesn't restart until the 10th. I'm guessing after Kindergarten he might go to special ed, as he doesn't speak English that well and the government here insiststed he go to French school.
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