{"id":17519,"date":"2021-05-01T03:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/?post_type=change&p=17519"},"modified":"2021-05-01T03:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:55:15","slug":"change05-energy-efficient-kids","status":"publish","type":"change","link":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/change\/change05-energy-efficient-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Play \u201cI Spy\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teach better energy habits with a game of \u201cI Spy\u2026\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Teaching your kids good habits can be painful. Not tiny-pinch painful. More like pulling-teeth-with-a-pair-of-pliers painful. You can go on and on (and on) about how wasting energy is bad for the environment, or how it puts a dent in their Nintendo-Switch-for-Christmas budget, without budging their behaviour.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that kids don\u2019t want to be helpful. It\u2019s just that doing what\u2019s good for them can seem kind of un-fun.<\/p>\n

So say goodbye to nagging and hello to fun and games! Because when it comes to teaching kids how to save energy and set up good habits for life, \u201cI Spy\u2026\u201d has your back.<\/p>\n

You can start the game off by identifying small moments of energy wastage in your home. Like, \u201cI spy with my little eye\u2026 a lamp that\u2019s been left on in daylight.\u201d Or \u201cI spy with my little eye\u2026 an air-conditioner and a heater on at the same time.\u201d Spying all the different ways to improve energy usage in a fun and blame-free way helps kids see their home environment with fresh eyes, upgrade old habits and think more mindfully about how they live and play \u2013 minus the tension.<\/p>\n

But want to know the best way to get kids to change what they do? It\u2019s you. Parents are their kids\u2019 number-one role models. When they see you using energy mindfully, they will take their cue from you and follow along.<\/p>\n

Want more ideas to help kids be more energy efficient?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having a hard time teaching your kids to be energy-efficient? Here are some fun ideas to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17522,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-17519","change","type-change","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-energy-efficiency"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/change"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}