Teaching Your Children Gardening Can Help Them Grow Too

Introduction

Dads have fun participating in several activities with their kids while they are growing up.  However, one particular activity can be fun, a great lesson about our environment, and assist in the improvement of their motor skills.  Gardening will allow children to play in the dirt while learning how to eat right, and the process of photosynthesis while developing their bodies.

Focus On Gardening

In the modern world, children spend several hours consuming different media, and young teenagers spend less than a half-hour doing vigorous physical activities, which may explain why almost 20 percent of kids are considered obese.  Thus, it is more important than ever for fathers to teach their children about the importance of other activities such as gardening.  Teaching your children when they are young about its benefits will help them get more physical activity in their daily lives, and it will also help them learn about the benefits of healthy food.

Gardening Affects Your Brain Body And Soul

Even the Public Broadcasting Service – or PBS – agrees.  There are plenty of ways that gardening can help your little ones.  Specifically, children will start getting curious about science issues such as photosynthesis.  Learning why plants need the sun to grow will make them more curious about how all the elements work together.  But, they will also learn math lessons while measuring how big the plants grow.  It will create a lot of excitement.

Another benefit from gardening is how it affects their bodies physically.  They will love getting their hands dirty while “playing” in the dirt.  The exposure to the outside elements can strengthen your child’s immunity, and overall health, as your child’s body comes into contact with things you won’t find inside the house or school.  Additionally, the physical activity will help their little bodies become stronger.  Such movements as using a wheelbarrow to move dirt, pulling weeds, and raking are great exercises that will help your child, and your garden, grow stronger.

Getting away from the smartphones, and tablets, will also help your child learn how to communicate, and build teamwork.  After all, a successfully created garden requires everyone working together to plant things in such a way that every plant or flower grows well.  You child will also benefit from the learned responsibility of taking care of your garden by adding the proper amounts of fertilizer, water and sunlight.

Gardening Fun With Games

As a father, you can even make a game out of it with your children.  You can teach them about photosynthesis, the different parts of a plant, and other lessons about plants.  By having them participate in these activities, they will actively learn all about the different parts of the photosynthesis that allow plants to grow.  There is little doubt that, as they learn, they will become excited, and more eager, to help grow more plants, and food, for the garden.

Conclusion

As you, and your children, begin the process of cultivating your own garden, it will be a fun learning experience for them.  They will begin to understand how plants grow through photosynthesis.  But, they will also get excited when they realize that they helped in the process of growing the plants, and food, in your garden.  It will be a life lesson that they will carry with them for years to come.