Kirsten Schilder: ‘Nick never does anything halfway and that has an impact on the family’

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Kirsten Schilder (39) is married to singer Nick Schilder and mother of Nikki (12), Julian (10) and Jackie (6).

Nick has been working on sustainability for a year now. And, as usual, he doesn’t do it halfway. He has changed his travel habits, diet and shopping habits and even made an award-winning podcast about it. Of course, many of these things also have an impact on our family.

Positive impact

I try to see this as a positive impact as much as possible. Even at the moments when Jackie spits out a new kind of vegetarian sausage, with which I secretly invested her sandwich, and pushes her plate out demonstratively. As humans, we simply have to adjust our behavior, otherwise things will go wrong, insofar as things don’t go completely wrong yet.

Adjusting our travel behavior brought beautiful things. I look back fondly on our car holiday through Italy. There was no doubt its charm in watching the landscape slowly change and looking forward to the next cappuccino I promised myself at every next charging stop.

“We simply have to change our behaviour, otherwise things will go wrong”

It was also surprisingly nice to go to London by train. We spent five wonderful days there and the children loved it even more than we did. This year a trip to Paris is planned, again by train. And my parents are going too. So special.

Make memories

As a young family, we enjoy our lives to the fullest and are often swallowed up by the hectic pace of everyday life. Sometimes I consciously try to think about the fact that our parents are getting older and that not everything is self-evident. It’s nice to set aside some time for quality time together and make memories with them. And that is also a form of sustainable living, right Nick?

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