How to instill in children a love for nature?

Even the youngest children You need to gradually introduce nature, with plants and animals, with birds andinsects. First in this book will help with colorful pictures, cartoons about animals and birds. Children aged 5-7 years will benefit from cognitive encyclopedias on natural history topics.

But, undoubtedly, the best way to planta child's love of nature is, directly, "to make friends" with him. The child can take care of domestic animals, indoor plants, to provide all possible assistance to parents in the garden or on the garden plot.

The best example for a child is his parents. If mom and dad do not respect the nature themselves, they tear andthey break down plants, throw garbage, then it is not necessary to talk about the upbringing of a child with respect to nature. But if parents show the child every day a personal example, with what respect they themselves treat nature, the child very quickly learns such a model of behavior.

Also an essential role in inculcating the children of loveto the nature play pre-school institutions, junior classes of the school. From the way teachers educate their children about the lessons of natural history, they will be interested in nature or remain indifferent to it. It's great if there is a "living" corner in a group or in a class. Children older than 4-5 years of age can fully feed the fish in the aquarium or feed the hamster. They can water flowers or sprinkle their leaves.

Lessons of natural history should be interesting for children. Instead of a boring study of books, it's better to go outon a collective walk into the forest or to the lake. But on such an "exit" occupation must necessarily give consent to the parents of children and it is better if accompanying adults will be few! Before the "sally" on nature, it is necessary to explain the rules of behavior as easily as possible.

Herbarium, crafts made of acorns and cones allow children to communicate with nature, not "offending" it. And then it's nice for the kid to give his creation to his mother, father or grandmother!

Today nature is oftendistressed situation. Technogenic catastrophes, industrial emissions into water and atmosphere, deforestation - all this is ruining an already fragile ecological balance. Therefore, instilling in our children a love of nature, we will help them build a future in which people live in harmony with their native planet.