Whether it’s environmental or financial worry, the key to containing stress about a scary unknown is empowerment.
Nicole, we are struggling fairly hard to make ends meet now and really working hard. I know we are not alone. What I am worried about is how my stress levels about our costs and not coping with them are being put upon my kids.
I am really on their cases about waste and lights and all those ‘Mum-things’. I want to give them a work ethic but do you think they are picking up on too much in these tougher times, and it will be damaging to them?Sarah, psychologists report a big increase in recent years in what is known as eco-anxiety in our children, and I’d venture economic anxiety is on the rise too.
Kids do need to know when times are tight – it’s potentially a great financial teaching opportunity and promotive of future responsible money management.For the environment, that’s recycling, stopping using single use plastics, picking up litter on the beach whatever gives them the sense of a solution.
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