Did you know that over 4 million diapers are being disposed into landfills every day? Every day?! On this Friday Let’s Know, some parenting tips that are necessary to follow in our daily life.

Babies may be tiny but do they ever have a large impact on our environment. Babies make enough poop to fill between 6,000 and 8,000 diapers before becoming fully potty trained. Unfortunately, these diapers can take up to 450 years to fully decompose.

That’s where we come in! We’ve put together a few Parenting Tips that you can use when raising your newborn that will also protect our environment as well.

Here are 3 Parenting Tips

• Use a diaper delivery service
  

There are a few diaper delivery services offered around the lower mainland (Happy Baby Cheeks, Saucy Bottoms, and Happy Nappy to name a few).

How this works is you place an order for the number of diapers you need that week, they’re delivered to you, and when finished with them they are picked up and cleaned at the end of the week. The cycle then continues.

This method can reduce water consumption by up to 20 percent!

• Don’t use diapers at all
  

The practice of elimination or early communication (EC) is when you go completely diaper free. This practice is when a caregiver uses timing, signals, cues, and intuition to infer when a baby needs to go. You basically play psychic and hope for the best. This way you can start your child on a potty as early as you want and just go from there.

• Making do with less
  
  

Don’t give in to the temptation of marketing. In today’s day and age, we always want our children and ourselves to have the best and the newest. By giving into this you are creating more waste than necessary.

It’s tough work living a minimalist lifestyle and there will be moments when you want to give in and make your life easier. That’s ok. Just know in the end you are making a difference.

These parenting tips will help your children connect to nature, learn, and conserve resources.