A TIME TO GROW: GARDENING DURING LOCK-DOWN

This period of lock-down due to covid-19 global pandemic has become very chaotic situation for the parents. Parents are worried about the future of their kids. Most of the children are unable to attend their regular school. They are stuck in their home and unfortunately lots of them don’t have proper access to the online education. But still we can’t ignore the fact that every problem has an underlying opportunity. We simply have to figure it out. Parents can utilize this period by teaching the lessons to their children that they barely learn at the school. Amazingly, children can be taught valuable lessons of life by merely involving them in simple household activities and helping them to explore it through various perspectives. And involving kids in the gardening is one of the foremost and effective activity. Gardening can offer children an opportunity to learn patience, sense of responsibility, compassion, environmental awareness and it also nourishes their mental and physical health.

Gardening with kids is more than an activity, it’s a family affair. Dig in the soil together to add physical activity and subtract stress.

AMAZING BENEFITS OF GARDENING WITH KIDS

TEACHES THE IMPORTANCE OF PATIENCE: When you get them in the garden, you have the opportunity to teach them that the good things take time, if the child provides the right care and patience, the movement, the vegetable, the flowers or the herbs sprout will be one they never forget and will get sense of accomplishment when their plant grows.

EXPLORES RESPONSIBILITY: Nothing teaches responsibility quite like creating something yourself. When you garden with children, they are learning patience as well as responsibility. Planting anything requires daily maintenance. Whether they are checking the progress of seeds, picking out weeds or simply watering their plants, kids will have to take responsibility with their own plants.

ENCOURAGES HEALTHY EATING: Showing children how their food is grown and having them help throughout the process will make it more exciting when it’s ready to eat. Gardening with kids help them to explore their relationship with food. A child may find salad more exciting and appetizing knowing they helped grow the vegetable in it.

ASSISTS WITH SOCIAL SKILLS: As a toddler children are just beginning to social skills and finding where they fit within the family, among their siblings, and how to communicate properly. Gardening provides unique playground. It is very nurturing experience for both parent and child as well as plant.

ENGAGES ALL FIVE SENSES: The five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch; Gardening involves each and every of these senses. From the early year when kids familiarizes themselves with certain plants, flowers and food to digging their fingers into the soil or taking the time to smell the flower, a day spent in the garden touches each sense in a very positive and unique way.

IMPROVE MOTOR SKILLS AND FOCUS: Improve and support the motor development skills by taking younger kids into the garden. allowing them to put the plant in the place they dig, plant the seeds will help their motor skills. These motor skills will come in handy later when they learn to write, type and cut. Work like carrying water can and watering the flowers or carefully picking out weeds, these type of works increases focus.

INTRODUCES KIDS TO SCIENCE: Help your children to learn about plants and introduce them to the diverse world of science. You can begin with simple very simple concepts like how watering the plant help them to grow. Allow your children to asks questions or research on their own with the reference of kids book. Working in garden with kids is like homemade science lesson.

If you are probably grasping for anything, you can get your hands on to keep your little ones entertained during this corona virus lock down. Enter gardening with kids bond with your children and foster a colorful love of nature and food together.