The Art and Climate Initiative

Teach Your Parents

About Teach Your Parents

Climate change is upon us. Children will be most affected, as the climate emergency is expected to worsen over their lifetimes.

Teach Your Parents (TYP) is a free climate literacy initiative for schools and children.

Through comics, animations, and school workshops, children learn about climate change in fun and creative ways.
Children then paint what they’ve learned and their ideas for change.
Selected paintings are exhibited in a formal art gallery show.

TYP gives young people a platform to share their ideas and feelings with the community, and to start thinking about how they can make a difference.

Get Involved- TYP 2026 edition

We are excited to launch the 2026 edition of Teach Your Parents. This year’s program will wrap up with a final exhibition at the Arnprior and District Museum in Arnprior, Canada.
If you're a student, teacher, parent, or school interested in participating, view the How to Participate section.
Or write to us at nandini@teachyourparents.org or sanjay@teachyourparents.org for more details.

How to Participate

Hear from the co-founders

Nandini Sundram and Abhimanyu Sundram, the student co-founders talk about the 2022-23 edition of TYP in this video. This video was presented at Carleton University to students and faculty at the launch event Canadian Journal of Children's Rights.

Teach Your Parents 2025-26 Edition

Arnprior and District Museum

35 Madawaska St, Arnprior,

ON K7S 1R8

The Arnprior & District Museum is a respected community heritage venue in the heart of Arnprior that attracts families, schools, and regional visitors. An ideal setting for exhibiting Teach Your Parents (TYP) climate comics and engaging youth audiences.

TYP Exhibition at the Arnprior and District Museum

TYP’s 2025–26 edition culminated in a three-month public exhibition at the Arnprior and District Museum in Arnprior, Ontario, running until April 11, 2026. The exhibition featured TYP comics and student paintings, accompanied by panel discussions on climate issues and artist-led workshops.

TYP's Climate comics

TYP's Climate Comics make climate science easy to understand through fun, relatable stories and simple visuals.

Created as both comics and short animations, they help kids learn about climate change and start conversations at home.

Teach Your Parents 2023 Edition

TYP Exhibition at the Trinity Art Gallery in Ottawa

In TYP’s 2023 edition, over 750 students across Canada and India took part. The program culminated in a two month-long public exhibition at the Trinity Art Gallery in Ottawa, with school awards celebrating young climate voices.