““That’s when the kids have meltdowns, because they don’t want to be shamed at school,” “
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Seems like a learning opportunity.
Parents can teach kids the term “eco-weenie”, the valuable skill of appearing to care while really believing the opposite (a skill they’ll sometimes need later in life, perhaps at work) and most valuable lesson of all - the importance of not caring what eco-weenies say or think.
That would be a very useful lesson. Actually.
No need to turn them into little revolutionaries - but one could begin to start them out with their own independent thought processes.
I toss my plastic water bottles and plastic grocery store lunch bags into the trash while my eco-friendly co-workers carefully put theirs in the recycle bin.