When kids get home from school, they re sick of behaving, and they let loose on you. Here are five child therapist-tested ways to fix after-school meltdowns (and a little about why they happen in the first place).
Get Your Kids to Care About the Environment by Helping Them Form a Relationship With Nature
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My family is evidence that it s difficult to wholeheartedly care about the environment until you have a real relationship with it. I mean, why care about something you don t fully understand or even appreciate? For me, it was difficult to tell my kids that they should try to protect the environment before we habitually immersed ourselves in nature.
Before the pandemic, sure, we recycled. When we saw trash on the ground, we picked it up. Each year, we talked about Earth Day (which happens to be on my birthday, too), composted our food, and even planted a garden. But pre-COVID, it felt like I was lecturing my kids about the importance of the environment . . . instead of them experiencing it.
Angela Anagnost-Repke is a writer and college writing instructor dedicated to raising two empathetic children. From education to pregnancy, she writes about all things motherhood. She is known for her dreadful technology skills and her mean Grecian chicken. She has been published in Good Housekeeping, Good Morning America, Parents, Your Teen, Literary Mama, the anthology “Red State Blues” by Belt Publishing, among others. She is currently at-work on the cross-generational memoir, Mothers Lie. Stories From Angela Anagnost-Repke