“Research has found that the amount of questions kids ask dramatically decreases once they start formalized education.”  – Bridget Shirvell

Journalist and climate-communicator Bridget Shirvell joins Humanism Now to share a four-part roadmap—feel, love, build, act—for raising climate-resilient kids. Drawing on her new book Parenting in a Climate Crisis, she explains how families can turn eco-anxiety into everyday action, nurture curiosity, and help children transform concern into hope.
Hachette Book Group

Connect with Bridget

• Website – https://breeshirvell.com 
• Newsletter – Raising Climate Resilient Kids -Substack 
• Instagram– @breeshirvell
• LinkedIn – /in/breeshirvell 

Topics we cover

✔︎ Bridget’s feel-love-build-act framework for climate-conscious parenting
✔︎ Turning daily habits—into social tipping points
✔︎ Teaching stewardship through family pets without gender stereotypes
✔︎ Countering the curiosity slump that formal schooling often creates
✔︎ Balancing individual choices with systemic change & local activism
✔︎ Practical ways to ease eco-anxiety while fostering genuine hope
✔︎ Food, waste-reduction and other low-lift actions kids can lead

Resources & further reading

• Parenting in a Climate Crisis – Bridget Shirvell (2025) 
• Tipping point for large-scale social change  – Science (2018) 
• Parenting and the climate crisis –The Ecologist (2025)

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