Teaching Kids to Care About Our Environment

I almost cried last week when my 9-year-old daughter, after watching several environmental films alerting viewers of the current state of our planet as well as ongoing conservation efforts while at Epcot, innocently asked me whether our world was going to last for a long time. I used to think that each generation would build on the successes of the one previous and that Mother Earth would live...well, forever! I now see what we've done to the planet and the growing efforts under way to fix past mistakes. Teaching our kids to have an environmental conscious and to be active participants in recycling and conservation should be a goal of all adults. Here are ways to take those first environmental steps with our youth that go beyond the single Earth Day celebration.