Ronan paints with water colors made from natural dish soap on recycled paper.
Thinking about homeschooling? Need motivation for your current practice? Here's a side of homeschooling you may not have thought about before; it's a great choice for the environment!
Top 6 Environmental Reasons to Homeschool
1. Obviously you're not driving to and from a school building everyday! Less oil consumption, less pollution!
You can better plan the outings you do take during the week, thus saving even more fuel with condensed errands.
2. You place less of a demand on resources such as the need for a school building, it's electricity, it's flushing toilets, etc.
You are doubling the value of your home by using IT as your school instead of placing a demand on the system to create and use more stuff!
3. Much less paper is being used. In schools nearly every lesson has mass consumption consequences! The books, the handouts, the work sheets the tests. Everything must be presented, worked out and filed away on paper.
In your homeschool the tree IS the lesson, the hand out and even the "work."
4. Your child consumes their meals at home.
Think of all the packaging and waste that goes into eating within the school system. First there is the trucking in of the boxed food, then the boxes, the energy consumption to heat it, and the disposable plates, silverware and cups. A child at home can eat local food from a reusable plate!
5. No back-to-school buying frenzy! You use only what you need in homeschool, no more!
6. Without worrying about 30 kids, a homeschooling mom can plan activities and lessons with the environment in mind instead of government imposed standards and budget concerns in mind.
You can choose natural paints and environmentally friendly products and activities.
Homeschooling - do it for you, your kids and Mama Earth!
