When I Grow Up ...

Booh came home with this homework sheet, "What would be your dream job when you are an adult?" for vocational week at her school. Her answer, "I want to be an environmental activist."

Right now she wants to save the ants that are coming back with the winter thaw at her school She's rallied her classmates and teachers together to support her "cause'" and for the second year in a row she and her classmates have created posters saying, "Dont step on the awnts!" They've posted these signs throughout the school This desire to protect the ants comes from her love of insects. She use to want to be a Bug Doctor. Makes sense that now she wants to be an environmental activist.

How does she know about environmental activism? She knows from stories I've shared about work I've done as a young environmental activist participating in non-violent civil disobedience. And I've read stories to her about other non-violent peace, social and environmental activists, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Julia Butterfly Hill. After learning about Julia Butterfly Hill, she did a sit-in in one of the trees in our front yard to protect it from being cut down. I had to reassure her that we had no plans on clear-cutting our front yard!

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