The Copenhagen summit draws the whole world attention. The significance and meaning is described as the last chance to save our earth. We don’t know what the result of it will be at the moment. It seems the so called summit is just the stuff that countries participate in. However, we should know how to teach our children to value and protect the environment we have. Parents are always the first example to children.

Most of us can recall several things we did like damaging the bushes and young trees, slingshot ting the birds just for fun when we were children. These happy times past forever, because children today prefer high tech toys to those hand made stuff in the old times. Memories of childhood great environment gradually disappear. Help our children to be aware of protecting the nature and environment at young ages is the responsibility of education for the next generation. Here are several tips that can help.

1. Let you child know the importance of saving natural recourses. Save water, electricity, food and value the work other people offer. Parents should set yourself an example to your children in daily life.
2. Encourage and support your children to participate in school activity or community job that help environment and greening.
3. Learn how to recycle the life waste and make the full use of unused things. Ask your children to do it with you. It is innovative.
4. Get rid of your waste properly.
5. Try to walk or take the bus to go outside with your children when you are free in the vacation.

The above suggestion is limited and I believe that many more good ideas stem from our understanding of life and our wisdom can not only make life better but also keep it better.

Yesterday was Sunday. I went shopping to buy a gift to the daughter of my colleague. It will be her four years old birthday the day after tomorrow. I looked around and finally chose a beautiful house shaped saving box with two cute pigs lying beside the door. I gave it to my colleague in the afternoon and in the evening I got the telephone her child called with happiness and thanks. How beautiful the whole thing was!

This morning, I was told by my colleague that the saving box was broken last night just two minutes after the call. What the hell was going on there? Her daughter broke the new saving box with the old one when trying to remove the coins to the new one and one of the black corners was crashed off. She was very nervous and face was suddenly flushed because the new box gone bad just several minutes after she got it. What to do with it? What to say next? Beat your children? Scold your child? What if it was not a saving box, what if it was something you treasure and valuable? When I was a child, my mother published me at that time.

The moment my colleague started to outbreak, her daughter whispered:” Mom, you know, I broken the corner so that the separated part can be the smoke from the chimney. I won’t touch the house saving box any more.” What a forced interpretation!

Telling this story, I want every parent to stop a while to give a chance for your children’s explanation before your outbreak erupt and punishment follows. We are all grown ups and all can feel the sadness and self-blame when we do the wrong things. Our child can feel it too. Give your child a period time and let he recognize the lesson learned from the things he mess up. It is good for you both.