This new t-shirt from BustedTees is just plain DEPRESSING. But oddly powerful, I think. Perfect for scaring your kids into recycling!
This new t-shirt from BustedTees is just plain DEPRESSING. But oddly powerful, I think. Perfect for scaring your kids into recycling!
Dear Alison: Kids follow the lead that is modeled in their family homes. Recycling makes sense, saves resources, produces less stuff as tras-instead materials can be used for another “life of products”. Support of Recycling hasn’t stopped, but it still needs a powerful emphasis as a lifestyle for the kids of our world to adopt it. Thanks for highlighting a powerful image of Where The Wild Things Were to bring to the front a big issue. Lynn
Kids follow the lead of their families. Families follow the lead of society. Every single person needs to take a stand against destroying our environment. Once it’s gone, we’re gone.
Looks remarkably like Dr. Suess’s “The Lorax”! Let’s keep speaking for the trees!
I never wanted to be a children’s bookseller. I wanted to be…A LUMBERACK!
I would disagree that kids follow their parents’ lead, especially when it comes to things like recycling. I know in my family, recycling and cutting 6-pack rings only became a habit after my brother and I learned about it in school and brought that information home. My dad quit smoking because we bugged him about it after learning in school about the dangers of smoking. My mom learned seatbelt safety after we had a special presentation at the school. And I know, among my friends with school-age children, that this is still a constant. Encouraging children to utilize what they learn in school by allowing them to establish healthy procedures is what changes family behaviors, not the other way around.
It’s both to some extent. I’d say that years ago, many adults didn’t know the dangers of smoking, not wearing seatbelts, or pollution. That’s no longer true, but kids definitely do pick up some good habits in school that they don’t learn at home. The bottom line is, we know now that we have to start treating our earth with respect in a big way and quickly.
I think it would be really interesting to read Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” to a 2nd grade classroom, and then show them this T-shirt, and asking the class’ thoughts. I’d be interested in how a shirt like this would impact 2nd graders, and if they’d really understand the core of the message. I think it could spark an interesting conversation!