Parenting In A Climate Crisis
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 18, 2025In this urgent parenting guide, learn how to navigate the uncertainty of the climate crisis and keep your kids informed, accountable, and hopeful–with simple actions you can take as a family to help the earth.
Kids today are experiencing the climate crisis firsthand. Camp canceled because of wildfire smoke. Favorite beaches closed due to erosion. Recess held indoors due to extreme heat. How do parents help their children make sense of it all? And how can we keep our kids (and ourselves) from despair?
Environmental journalist and parent Bridget Shirvell has created a handbook for parents to help them navigate these questions and more, weaving together expert advice from climate scientists, environmental activists, child psychologists, and parents across the country. She helps parents answer tough questions (how did we get here?) and raise kids who feel connected to and responsible for the natural world, feel motivated to make ecologically sound choices, and feel empowered to meet the challenges of the climate crisis—and to ultimately fight for change.
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“Hopeful yet grounded, this provides crucial guidance on navigating a complex facet of modern parenting.”
“With global crises dominating the headlines—from geopolitical tensions to the escalating climate emergency—it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Bridget Shirvell’s PARENTING IN A CLIMATE CRISIS: A Handbook for Turning Fear into Action offers a refreshing perspective on how parents can navigate these challenges with their children.”
How Do You Parent in a Climate Crisis? Bridget Shirvell Has Some Ideas
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“This sympathetic guide offers suggestions for starting conversations and modeling accessible vocabulary and also provides helpful definitions and background information (efforts to mitigate greenhouse gases go back as far as 1855).”
— Booklist
“This book will appeal most to the parents of young children or those who have not yet been keenly focussed on the climate-parenting connection (which is apparently a lot of us … Bridget’s calm, clear writing provides a gentle roadmap for anyone navigating these waters for the first time (I wish I’d had it when I first felt climate despair as a mom).”
Parenting In A Climate Crisis: Actionable advice for worried — and furious — parents.
