How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change - Turning Angst Into Action

Building grit and hope in the face of the climate emergency

All the tools we need to arm ourselves and our children who are literally facing the fight for their future.

¿ Linus Roache, Golden Globe-nominated actor, and climate activist

Essential. Read this insightful guide to why and how we can "talk climate" with kids!

¿ Raffi Cavoukian, C.M., O.B.C., singer, author, Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring

WITH CATASTROPHIC global warming already baked into the climate system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we maintain hope and make a difference in the face of the climate crisis?

Help is at hand. How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and galvanize positive action. Coverage includes:

• The unvarnished realities of the climate emergency


• Strategies for talking to kids of different ages, including advice from engaged parents on the ground


• How to maintain our own hope and that of our children


• Practical actions for families


• Helping children follow their passions in pursuit of a livable world.

A lifeline for parents who are feeling overwhelmed with fear and grief, this book provides both hope and practical ways to engage children in pursuit of a better world that is still possible.

At once fierce and soothing, responding to many questions parents around the world seek to answer as their children look them in the eye.

¿ Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International

Learn how we can speak to our children about climate change in a way that conveys urgency but maintains agency.

¿ Michael E. Mann, distinguished Professor, Penn State University, co-author, The Madhouse Effect

HARRIET SHUGARMAN is Executive Director of ClimateMama, professor of Global Climate Change Policy and World Sustainability, and Chair of The Climate Reality Project, NYC Metro Chapter. She is a nationally recognized influencer and trusted messenger on solutions to the Anthropocene. She blogs and lives in New York, NY.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface: This Book Is for You
What This Book Does
Timing Is Everything
1. Introduction: Awakening to Our Climate Emergency
Dropping the Climate Change Bomb
Why We Should Be Concerned
The Solutions Puzzle
Climate Awakening: Climate Reality
ClimateMama Beginnings
Memorable Blog Posts
2. Thanks for the Ride, Dinosaurs: Science, Politics, Growth, and Justice
Science
Politics
Growth
Justice
3. Coming to Grips with Climate Change As a Parent: From Grief to Hope to Resolve to Action
Coming to Terms with Reality
Grief
Hope
Resolve
Action
Trusted Messengers
4. Leading by Example
Find Your Superpower
Name What You Are Working to Save and Why
Climate Curriculum
Parent Climate Activists
5. Transitioning from Angst to Action: Preschool through Middle School
The Climate Conversation: Preschool through Middle School
Engaging Your Child on Climate Action: Preschool through Middle School
Keeping Children Involved at All Ages
6. Pursuing Passions through the Lens of Climate Action: High School, College, and Beyond
How to Share the Reality of Our Climate Crisis with Our Grown Children
Supporting Climate Activism
7. Creating a Million Ripples: From Me to We
Thinking in Systems and Channeling Systemic Change
Scaling Solutions
Being the Change We Wish to See
Vote, Vote, Vote
Follow Up: Preparing for Our Climate Emergency
Plant Seeds: Literally and Figuratively
From Me to We
Resources
Youth-Led or Youth-Focused Organizations
Parent-Focused Organizations
Climate Action and Education Websites
Climate News Websites
Climate Justice
Notable Books
Climate Science
Climate Action Organizing and Book Club Guide Guide
Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers

About the author

Harriet Shugarman is Executive Director of ClimateMama, professor of Global Climate Change Policy and World Sustainability, and Chair of the Climate Reality Project, NYC Metro Chapter. She is a nationally recognized influencer, connector, and trusted messenger for parents on solutions to our climate crisis. A recipient of the prestigious Climate Reality Green Ring Award and praised by Al Gore as ¿an outstanding Climate Reality Leader who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to her role as a climate communicator and activist.¿ She lives in New York and shares her message of hope and action at www.climatemama.com.

Summary

How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children, maintain hope in the face of crisis, and galvanize positive action by encouraging today's children to follow their passions in pursuit of a livable world.

Foreword

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• Online/social media outreach: ClimateMama blog, Climate Reality Project, 350.org, Women Eco Warriors, Mamavation, Moms Clear Air Force, BadAss Climate Women, parents.com, parenting blogs
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Product details

• Authors: Harriet Shugarman
• Publisher: New society publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2020
• EAN: 9780865719361
• ISBN: 978-0-86571-936-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, SELF-HELP / Green Lifestyle, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, Global Warming, SELF-HELP / Anxieties & Phobias, Coping with anxiety & phobias, Conservation of the environment, Self-sufficiency & 'green' lifestyle, Self-sufficiency, Education and Parenting