How to Green Your Child

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When it comes to the care and feeding of children, there are a lot of environmentally responsible choices you can make.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Reusable containers
School supplies made from recycled materials
Nontoxic toys
An arts and crafts box or basket
A garden project
Diligence in setting a good example

Step 1: Pack eco-friendly lunches

Prepare eco-friendly lunches by creating your own snack-size portions in reusable containers. If they can't use the school's cutlery, pack them off with the non-disposable kind... if they can be trusted to bring it back!

Step 2: Supply your kids with notebooks made from recycled paper, biodegradable pens, recycled pencils, and solar-powered calculators, all of which are available online or at larger supply stores.

Tip: Avoid vinyl binders; the manufacturing process releases dangerous dioxins into the environment.

Step 3: Stuff their school supplies in an eco-friendly backpack made of recycled rubber or hemp.

Step 4: Have a catchall box

Demonstrate the value of reusing items, while at the same time stoking your kids' creativity, by designating one box or basket an Arts & Crafts Catchall. Encourage the whole family to toss in odds and ends that might be useful in an art project — scraps of paper, pieces of ribbon & string, parts of discarded or broken toys, & empty paper rolls.

Step 5: Grow something

Grow something with your child. If you can manage a small vegetable patch, great. But even a small windowsill herb garden will impart lessons on the joys of fresh, homegrown food.

Step 6: Do as you say

Teach your children by word and deed. Explain to them why you bring your own shopping totes to the supermarket and don't leave the water running while your brush your teeth. If you're consistent, eco-friendly choices will become a way of life for them, too.

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[LYRICZFREAKK]

Aww the little kid is so cute!

[tel7asteze89]

there called hippies

[FinnyMorris]

But i want to blue my child

[333mike720]

Basicaly you are teaching you kid they cant do ANYTHING non eco friendly.

gratz, like anybody would do that cruel thing.

[CuteLove415]

how to teach your child to become a hippie.

[chocolatechick729]

thats sad how some of you are small minded and call people who actually try to do good for the environment "hippies" or tree huggers , if we don not do anything now in our time the ones who are gonna suffer the consequences of our actions are gonna be the children of the future! think about that for a minute and stop being so small minded and do something good for once!

[jackaroot123]

Step 1: Get Green Paint Step 2 : Paint Your Child. DONE!!!!

[MRPIMP62]

i fell bad for that girl

[RUL1S88]

Make a tutorial of "How to blue your child"

[PoptropicaLover]

LOL Is it weird to say that I love the music that's being played? xD

[sweety3611]

@iBurryful lol so funny i want to be painted green

[HELLPINAVENGER]

just paint them...