Each of us wants to make his home was cozy, convenient, incomparable, always, where would one who is not he was away from home, members of the family, he knew, that await him at home, always listen to and understand you in a difficult moment. Exactly for it is in families should be a tradition that children must acquire and transfer to their future family. A tradition of modesty, about the appearance of skills energy savings in children, we discuss in this article.
Psychologists claim that as a child, subsequently, will contain to yourself, others and life in general – depends entirely on the parents. Life may seem to be even an endless holiday or a fascinating journey, and can connect, how boring, thankless and hard work, when visiting the school. A child perceives the world through the eyes of adults – their parents.
There are external factors that have an influence on the family tradition. The modern life level and progress dictate their rules, and there's nothing special about that three-year – four-year-old child to easily cope with the wisdom of the computer, turning on and off lighting in rooms. To turn on the tv and watching children's programmes. It also opens and closes the taps with the water, knows where the hot water is, where it's cold. Gently he touches to radiators heating, and knows that the heating works when it is cold outside, and it doesn't work, when it is warm outside.
After 5 – 7 years old, he was already interested in the questions: where it comes from gas and how it comes into the apartment?; why is it necessary to fill up the car fuel and where it comes from?; why electricity is turned off (at the time of watching children's programmes), and water (when a child washes in the bathroom) and from whom does it depend?; why do you need to leave the city and breathe clean air, and no play in the yard with friends?
All these problems, one way or another connected with energy saving, ecology, relevant in our time and worry adults. Whether you are interested in energy saving small children 5 – 10 years? Whether they can consciously make their contribution to its solution?
Respond right away – they can, if interested in this adult members of the family. There are a number of children's educational programmes in the field of energy saving and ecology in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine for preschool and school educational institutions. True, it should be said that these programs are optional to the learning and teaching takes place on a voluntary basis. But in the near day, when they will be adopted by the relevant state normative documents and issues, energy saving, energy saving, for children are as obvious, as the rules of conduct, history of his native region, geography etc.
To a child quickly mastered these concepts in kindergarten, in the lower grades of school, he need your help to do it in the family. After 5 years the child begins to explore the world in a fun way. He liked the game, especially, if with him to play his favorite people: dad, mom, brother, sister, grandma and grandpa.
I was myself a witness of the good pedagogical approaches to economic water flow in a young family. My mom used to get from my 4 years of summer son by yourself brush your teeth in the morning and evening. When there is a question on family council became about saving water, with the aim of reducing the payments in her income, my mom organized a game with his son, who has more saves water when cleaning teeth. Showed son the water meter, and it is sure that the drum counter is spinning, when it is opened the faucet. She explained how the economical use of water when brushing your teeth (I hope you know how) and offered a reward for who more save.
Game son liked it so much that after the arrival of his 3-year-old cousin brother (we accidentally overheard their conversation), at a time when they were together in the bathroom and brush my teeth alternately, a senior that taught the younger open the tap only for washing out the toothbrush and the rate of water for mouthwash in the cup. Ended the conversation toddlers phrases – tomorrow with mom to see the water meter and we get a prize!
Another example. Dad to his five-year-old son designed the game for good deeds. A list of good things he could do son, contained many things: help the mother, to remove the toys behind and at the lowest sister, to bring and give the pope a tool in that last any corrections and so on, At the end of each day, on a family council times are recorded all the good deeds done by the son, and the stamp points. Dad suggested son in the list of good deeds enable energy savings, showed a report card of electric counter with numbers and explain what you need to do, that the value was smaller.
At this age children know the characters and can distinguish a larger number from a smaller number. For the fulfillment of the good deeds the possibility of a special prize. About a week later, 5-year-old child clearly learned, when there is no one in the nursery, the light must be disconnected, if you get out of the bathroom, the light you have to disconnect if no one is watching on tv, his need off. He did it himself, or resembled the adult. It came down to it, that sometimes parents, to the detriment of themselves they didn't want to watch live tv, understanding the importance of skills, purchased of their child.
These examples show that family problems to reduce the payment of municipal payments, which consume energy, it is possible to solve with the help of the children, in this case, in a child to develop the skills, correct, careful relationship resources for which the household pays the money. And it is saving energy in the children's age. And yet, it is very important to these concepts and skills,changes in the rules of conduct on energy saving in the home, their children will recognize from the closest people, after spending and communicate with them more time.
In conclusion, take a few tips that can be used for energy saving along with the children.
A simple rule of a good host (good deeds):
- Close the faucet while brushing your teeth, or use a glass to rinse your mouth.
- Wash the dishes under a current of flowing water, but in the sink, I closed the hole of the stopper.
- The main thing — do not forget to turn off the water!
The implementation of these simple rules will give you a year to save the whole lake with a diameter of 200 m and a depth of 2 meters. In addition, you'll save chemicals, which are used for water purification, and energy, which is used on water heating and pumping.
What can be done to the lamp to needlessly light?
The average electricity consumption for lighting of the apartment is about 1 kw. h per day(using light bulbs). But this consumption can be reduced, if you replace light bulbs, fluorescent lamps. 60 Watt bulb is equivalent to 18 W lamps luminescent at the same level of lighting. The life of fluorescent lamps in 6 – 8 higher than that of incandescent lamps.
Periodically wipe the light bulbs: a well-mashed bulb lit for 10 — 15% brighter polluted, dusty.
How is your refrigerator?
The optimal place for a refrigerator in the kitchen, it is best to cool place. When the outside temperature is 20 degrees fridge for about about 6% less energy. Do not put the refrigerator in the vicinity of the battery or other heating devices. Very negatively on the work of the refrigerator its toll and the big "coat" in the freezer. So don't be lazy it again melted. Since this will be economic.
How to economically use electric hob?
On one of the kitchen utensils, you can save hundreds of kilowatt hours of energy. You just need to take the pan slightly blocked burner electric stoves and firmly fit to it. Pan with a convex or concave bottom, but also of the pan with a messy bottom and a layer of limescale wasting 50% of electricity, but at the same time about the same time.
Count how many times a day do not boil the water kettle? How much hot water are you using?
Sure, the cups 2 – 3 and the rest of the water cool in the kettle. And what if it take the water and pour into a thermos? Then you won't have to waste time on cooking, every time when you like to drink tea, and yes, even save energy.
As you pet laundry?
Saving energy can be, even when Ironing. For this it is necessary to remember that too dry and too wet linen must be ironed longer, and thus greater energy expenditure. And one more "little thing": the heater can be turned off for a few minutes to the end of the work; it is quite a bit of residual heat.
Now — the cold season. We are with you, who walks around in a warm apartment. But it happens in the winter we complain of cold in our apartments and the guilty in that organization, that us heat-energy. We all ourselves have done to our homes precious heat?
How can we keep warm in our homes?
- In the autumn it is necessary to insulate in the house all the windows, balconies and doors.
- Do not forget to close the door at the entrance.
- Do not leave openings constantly open.
- At night close the curtains, which would keep extra heat.
- In the apartment properly spread furniture: set aside the battery is a sofa and table to take the heat freely to place on your apartment.
Through these simple actions, you can reduce the cost of heating the apartment by about 5-10%.
You can be sure that the energy savings for the kids — it's an investment of the parents in the future of their generation.