Last year I was particularly impressed by several #30DayWilders who wrote on the Facebook group about doing litter picks with their children as one of their acts of wildness.
It’s something I would like to do with
the minis when they are older too.At the moment I think they’re too young and might enthusiastically tackle the task before I’m able to discern whether what they are picking up may hurt them or not so I currently mainly talk about how we don’t litter ourselves and if they point anything out say that it was wrong of people to drop it.
One item of litter I often can’t help myself picking up though is the plastic rings that tie beer cans together.
There is something specific I learnt about at primary school about birds such as swans and ducks getting their necks stuc
k in them that has evidently stuck in my mind and compels me to make sure they are disposed of more carefully.So I was particularly proud of Luk
e recently bringing me one and saying “bin”.Double proof that it does pay to start early when encouraging young conservationists.
At least the plastic rings don’t have sharp edges although now I have
to be hyper aware of what behaviours of mine he may copy next!
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