How to Talk to a Child About Global Warming

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Tip 1 - Communicate With Your Kids About Climate Change

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jerry Mc Carty | permalink

Move past the media mumble, and help your child understand global warming.

For further reading: http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/global-awareness/communicate-your-kids-about-climate-change ^[1]

Tip 2 - The Kids Guide To Global Warming

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by VIJAY CHAPHEKAR | permalink

We are seeing change all over the world. Arctic sea ice is melting earlier and Glaciers are disappearing. Heat waves and storms are becoming more extreme. Learn all about Global Warming on Kidzworld!
Tags: global warming, climate change, environmental, ecosystems, green, humans, species, food chains, oceans, land, weather, climate, atmosphere, earth, garbage, recycling, pollutions, co2, fossil fuels, carbon, fish, birds, mammals, humans, earth, world, planet, kidzworld, kidsworld

For further reading: http://www.kidzworld.com/article/17859-the-kids-guide-to-global-warming ^[2]

Tip 3 - Parenting in an Age of Climate Change: Communicating the Tough Truths to Children - Yale Climate Connections

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by David Conquest | permalink

Climate communications takes on a new seriousness when it is one’s own children needing to be communicated with. There are certain difficult conversations with children that every parent confronts — sex, drugs, illness, death. And then, in every era, there …

For further reading: http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2013/04/parenting-in-an-age-of-climate-change-communicating-the-tough-truths-to-children/ ^[3]