The strategies we use to talk about climate change with our children must be age-appropriate and child-appropriate, tailored to our children’s temperament and developmental level. Rowanbank Arts and Education, an Edinburgh-based organization that offers arts-based environmental education for children, suggests an approach they call the “Natural Flight of Steps.” Informed by a Swedish Forest School method called Skogsmulle, which aims to help children grow closer to nature through outdoor learning, the Natural Flight of Steps sees human connection to nature as a process.
