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Gardening for children is easy and beneficial

Apparently, we can see how nature is treated these days. It is a sad thing to know that people do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems. What can we do about this? It's as simple as starting with the children. It is good to see the children's involvement with environment-friendly activities such as gardening. One such nature-loving activity that children could easily get their hands on is gardening. Why should you consider gardening for children?

Here are the benefits that gardening could easily provide the children with:

Gardening for children guide books

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Gardening for children benefit # 1 - Science

In planting, children are indirectly taught the wonders of science like the plant's life cycle and how human's intervention can break or make the environment. They can have a first hand experience on the miracle of life through a seed. This would definitely be a new and enjoyable experience for the kids.
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Gardening for children all over the world

First lady Michelle Obama wites on growing food, healthy kids
Lofty goals for a book about a garden. In American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, Mrs. Obama holds out the raised vegetable beds on the South Lawn as "an expression of my hopes" for the nation's children.
Much ado this summer at Botanic Garden
By JENNIFER BURKLOW Kid Zone May 30, 2012 4:54PM The new Grunsfeld Children's Growing Garden opening June 2 will be the site of drop-in activities weekends throughout the summer at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road ...
EARTH Center Offers Kids Gardening Workshop In June
SOUTH BRUNSWICK ? Are you looking to get your kids away from the video screen and into the backyard? Discover techniques to get them outside and active with the ?Getting Kids Into the Garden? workshop presented at the EARTH Center on Wednesday, ...
Omaha kids replant garden after theft
Thieves stole all of the vegetables from the planters in the 4800-square-foot community garden over the Memorial Day weekend. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) ASSOCIATED PRESS OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? The kids from Sherman Community Center in north Omaha have ...
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Gardening for children benefits # 2 and 3 - Life and Relaxation

2. Life

Watching a seed grow into a tree is just as wondrous as the conception to birth and growth of a child. In time, kids will learn to love their plants and appreciate the life in them. Gardening for children could actually help simulate how life should be treated -- it should be with care. The necessities to live will be emphasized to kids with the help of gardening - water, sunlight, air, soil. Those necessities could easily be corresponded to human necessities, i.e., water, shelter, air, food. By simply weeding out, one could educate how bad influences should be avoided to be able to live life smoothly.

3. Relaxation

Studies show that gardening can reduce stress because of its calming effect. This is applicable to any age group. More so, it stimulates all the five senses. Believe it or not, gardening may be used as therapy to children who have been abused or those who are members of broken homes. It helps build one's self-esteem.

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Gardening for children of all ages guide books

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Gardening for children benefit # 4 - Quality Time with the Family

4. Quality Time with the Family

You can forget about your stressful work life for a while be soothed by the lovely ambience in the garden. You can play and spend quality time gardening with your children. You can talk while watering the plants or you can work quietly beside each other. The bottom line is, always do what you have to do, together with your kids. You might discover a lot of new things about your child while mingling with them in your garden.

Let kids become aware of their environment's needs. And one way to jumpstart that environmental education may be through gardening. It's hitting two birds with one stone -- teach them to respect life while you bond with them. Gardening for children is the sure way to go!

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Please post your gardening experiences with your children. Any lens feedback will also be appreciated.

  • lilymom24 Apr 11, 2011 @ 12:29 pm | delete
    Very nice lens and I am adding it to my "featured lenses" section on my containter gardening for kids lens. =)
  • melvinbyers5949 May 15, 2010 @ 4:02 am | delete
    great lens. it's really nice to work with your kids in the garden.
    thanks, garden tool cart
  • ElizabethJeanAllen Oct 1, 2009 @ 5:49 pm | delete
    I had my own little flower garden when I was a child. I loved it.
    Great lens
    Lizzy
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