The Sustainable Toddler: 7 Simple Things Our Family Does To Stay Sustainable
I am partnering with Earthjustice to as one simple question: Why should our children inherit a world made worse for them because we weren’t brave enough to preserve it for them? It’s a simple question, but it’s loaded. After all, as the adage goes, “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” We need to think about what kind of planet they will inherit? What kind of planet do we want them to inherit? My daughter loves to play outside, like most kids. Where we live, she has the chance to run through not just manicured parks but through farmlands and woods. Recently, on a walk this past autumn, she stopped to pick up a leaf. A rather large leaf at that. As a sudden breeze blew through the branches of the trees above us, more leaves came cascading down around us. She looked up, eyes filled with wonder, watching dozens of leaves fall down around us. She shouted, in her almost two-year-old vocabulary “WOW! LEATHES!” All kids deserve a chance to marvel
