Try Gardening For Kids

Clearly, we can see how nature is treated these days. It is a sad thing to understand that men and women do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems. What can we do about this? It's as elementary as starting with the children. It is all right to see the children's involvement with environment-friendly activities. One such nature-loving activity that children could simply get their hands on is gardening. Why should you consider gardening for your children?

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

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 involvement on the miracle of life through a seed. This would absolutely be a new and enjoyable experience for the kids.

2. Life
Watching a seed develop 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 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, and soil. Those necessities could easily be corresponded to human necessities, i.e., water, shelter, air, food. By merely weeding out, one could teach 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 suitable 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.

4. Quality Time with the Family
You can forget about your stressful work life for a while is soothed by the pretty ambience in the garden. You can play and spend quality time 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. Its hitting two birds with one stone -- instruct them to respect life while you bond with them.