World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5th. It was founded in 1972 by the United Nations as a day to do activities that help the environment.

On this day we as elders must shower our best knowledge about nature to our younger generation. Children must be made an inevitable part of nature, if at all you want them to grow up to be responsible towards mother nature. Parents must spend quality time with their kids in either watering the plants, pruning the garden, planting saplings, adding manure or plucking flowers.

Some parents are truly eco conscious and will have such nature loving activities lined up throughout the year as against just one single day.

We must always keep in mind that we as parents must not be good preachers but practitioners of good practices, which will in itself encourage our children to imitate.

Activities like switching off the lights, closing the taps tightly, throwing wastes into the dustbin, using less plastic, not wasting food and so on must be made a personal habit irrespective of the place in which the child is.

Parents may wonder what a child can do to save the environment but the fact that a small sapling can grow into a big tree, in a similar fashion a child can surely make a difference when guided about best practices to save the nature.

There are many activities which children can inculcate in their daily lives to make planet earth a better place to live in not just for oneself but for everyone else around as well.

• Make children to keep a small water bowls in open spaces outside your house for birds and animals to drink.
• Engage your child in pruning or other allied garden activity once in a while.
• Guide children on water scarcity and what best they can do to save water.
• Encourage children to use less plastic be it in the form of toys or shopping bags.
• Educate children on impacts of food wastage.
• Inculcate the habit of switching off lights, TV,AC, laptops, computers when not required.

Theme for World Environment Day 2019 is “Air Pollution”, thus urging awareness amongst the present population to be more cautious of their actions which may impact the air we breathe.

Let us join our hands with our tiny tots to make this world not just a livable place but a heaven on earth.