I came across this the other day in a draft NGO report:<\/p>\n
\"Parenting is never easy and views change on the best approach. Our sustainable parenting programme might have raised eyebrows 50 years ago but today it fulfils a clear need and is a key part of our drive to inspire communities to live more sustainably. <\/em>Baking bread, gardening and composting, making paper and providing help with real nappies and potty training, are all part of our very successful parenting sessions.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Commendable, and great to see, I thought; really good that this is being done \u2013 with one proviso. \u00a0What, I asked myself, is \"making paper\" doing in this list? \u00a0 I like the idea of my grandchildren's grandchildren's baking their own bread, gardening, composting, etc, but if they have to make their own paper, then it's a bleak future indeed.<\/p>\n
Whilst, practical paper making is an excellent means of enabling (young) people to learn about the environmental impacts of the paper industry, and how these can be avoided or mitigated, it's a mistake, surely, to see it as any more than an engaging and effective heuristic. \u00a0So let's see it as the means<\/em> it is, rather than as an end \u2013 except for the rough and ready efforts taken home to proud (grand)parents once in a schooling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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