I agree. I think it’s important to have conversations about issues when kids are around. Even if he’s watching TV, my son will listen and sometimes join in when we’re talking about stuff. For instance this morning there was an ad on for yet another godawful plastic toy set. I said to my partner, ‘What’s going to happen when there’s no more oil to make plastic, where will all these toys go?’ and it started this big conversation about how the stuff we see as tat now will become collectors’ items, how vegetable oil will be used to make biodegradable plastics and how poor people will pick over landfill sites to get hold of plastic to sell. My boy joined in with other suggestions about recycling the plastic we have and how we won’t need new things if we just used the things we had. When it’s put into a context that they understand, kids are all for discussing these issues.

Haha, yeah, teaching is important. Don't forget to make it fun, though >_>. The Magic Schoolbus is pretty nice for teaching kidduns about the world.