Green Gardening with Kids

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Green gardening is a fulfilling activity for kids as well as a fun one, your child will gain self esteem, relaxation time and learn the meaning of being patience and responsible plus your family will enjoy spending quality time together and benefit from growing your own healthy food.

Planting garden with your child is a beneficial activity for him as well as for your family. To make it healthy doing, consider planting organic garden. Organically grown food reduces your exposure to pesticides, which have been linked to many serious dieses plus it is more nutritious.

Where Can You Plant a Garden?

The most common place to plant a garden is in your backyard, but what to do if you don’t have one? Not a problem

You can use pots and plant a flourishing garden on the roof, at your veranda, or even at your kitchen window.

You can also suggest your school to make a green project, to designate a place for an organic garden and involve all the kids at school to come and garden.

Benefits of Green Gardening with Kids

Letting your child experiment with gardening might benefit him in many ways.

Environmental conscious

Your child will get to explore the outdoors and develop a real connection and love to earth and the environment, which allow them to better understand ecological and environment issues and how they can help preserving our world.

Self confidence

Your child will gain more confident in him self and will learn the meaning of being responsible. The garden won't flourish without his maintenance and when it does he will achieve a great sense of satisfaction with his work.

Eating habits

Teaching your child how food grows and where it comes from is a valuable lesson for them, for all they care food is growing in the supermarket, but when he gets to plant and seed and watch the wonder of growing, your child will have a different perspective about the food they consume. My daughter gets pleasure in eating fruits straight from the trees over eating them from the refrigerator.

The miracle of life

Planting seeds in the ground and watching them grow while taking care of all their needs is similar to the miracle of life, to watch how a tiny seed transforms into a mature flower, vegetable or tree with just taking care and proving the means to grow like sun, air, water, fertilizer and a lot of love.

Your child will understand the meaning of being responsible for giving life and helping maintain them. It’s a privilege and not a burden.

Patience and relaxation

In today's hectic life kids exposed to the rapid race, they want it all and they want it now, they are overwhelmed with tons of information, choices, material stuff and somewhere along the way they are forgetting they are still kids and trying to show they are grown ups at young age, too young.

Taking the time and relaxing is their right and gardening might be the best way to tech them the meaning of patience and relaxing.

By nature, gardening is a relaxing activity, no rush, it's just you and mother earth, and you have all the time in the world. Taking care of the little stuff in the garden watching its growth is a fulfilling activity that reduces hyperactivity and pressure of everyday life.

So are you ready to start green gardening? Click here for more extensive information on how to garden with kids.

Get Started with These Books:

• Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children
• A Child's Garden: 60 Ideas to Make Any Garden Come Alive for Children (Archetype Press Books)
• Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening (A Kid's Guide series)

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