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School climate strikes

My eldest and my youngest went. :)

(It was the middle one's last day of Sixth form, or she'd have gone too.)

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Good for them! What did they think of the experience?

Well the older ones both went on the first one in... March? February? (Time is a blur.)

The younger one made a very nice banner and when I asked her how she'd enjoyed her first protest march, she was all 'Well you took me to a Pride march last year, so...' I think that meant she enjoyed it. Even if there wasn't a fun fair at the end of it.

I suppose it is, in some ways, just a big get-together :)

Good for them. And good for you for supporting their action.

Are they also doing the parallel thinking about what they can do to reduce their own environmental impact?

I suspect clothing is a good target their age group can aim for. 10% of global carbon emissions (plus loads of landfill, microfibres in oceans, etc) come from clothing.

What they do, their friends may well copy.

When I was young, we had an annual bag of clothing that one group of cousins had grown out of, and we passed a similar bag onto another group of cousins.

My sister and I both got some new clothes, but she always had a bigger wardrobe than me as she had the best of the ones I'd grown out of. I used to be envious of her!

Now we're grown up, we're both charity shop addicts. It's nine months since I last bought a brand new item of clothing.

Good for them. And good for you for supporting their action.
Sometimes parenting is easy. :)

And as for clothing, then they're way ahead. The eldest gets all her clothes at charity shops, the middle one does a fair bit of clothes swapping with friends (something doesn't fit one of them, they give it to someone else) and although the little one is 13 and would buy all of Primark if we let her, we don't have money for that, so she only gets clothes very rarely. And oh, hand-me-downs are very much a thing (they have... many little cousins). Also everything that isn't completely ruined goes to charity shops.

But then we are lucky that our MP is Mary Creag, who is very much on top of the environmental impact of clothing. It's the 2nd largest polluter. :(

I like your kids! The clothes swap with friends sounds like a good idea.

You're very well organised.

My only problem on the clothes front is my granddaughter. She grows so fast and charity shops have a lot less stuff for five year olds than they do for toddlers. She has no siblings or cousins.

I'm going to experiment with some basic sewing skills, to see if I can make her a skirt from a fabric offcut I bought in a charity shop.

I like your kids! The clothes swap with friends sounds like a good idea.
Well, if it doesn't fit any longer, and someone else really likes it...

You're very well organised.
*snort* Dunno about that... *looks at two bags full of clothes that should go to little cousins/charity, that have been sitting around for several months*

I'm going to experiment with some basic sewing skills, to see if I can make her a skirt from a fabric offcut I bought in a charity shop.
Good luck with it! I'm sure she'll treasure it.