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Momfidence! cheers on commonsense parenting and sighs at the rest. How to worry less, wing it more. A.k.a. parenting by the seat of my mid-rise mom jeans.
About Paula SpencerI'm the author of Momfidence! An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting, and a mom of four in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (where you can't even buy Oreos at the two wholesome groceries nearest to my home). Some Kindred Blogs
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This Week's Lighten-Up-and-Eat-a-Cookie AwardApril 21, 2009
An overdue giant serving of cookies to the collective environmental hysteria that has one in three American children fearing the planet will not exist by the time they grow up! Having lived through my share of Earth Days and anti-pollution lectures as a kid, I, too, took it to heart and worried that we might run out of trees by the time I was a mother. But this study is saying one-third of children fear imminent environmental Apocalypse! Note the study says, A staggering 95 percent of the children surveyed said their parents pitched in by recycling, using rechargeable batteries, and conserving water and electricity. Not so staggering considering that at least some of these behaviors have become cultural norms. Not so staggering, either, if it means their parents do ALL these things, because it stands to reason that the more environmentally harpy the parents are, the more anxious the kids are. If parents are matter of fact, the kids are liable to feel more secure. Not that parents can control what kind of hysteria is poured, unfiltered, into their brains at school.
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