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Planting a tree is a terrific opportunity to teach your children important life lessons while having fun. Tree planting has several benefits, including the following:
- Learning about nature: Digging, planting, sowing seeds and providing ongoing tree care teaches your kids the science of growing trees and how nature works.
- Boosting self-confidence: Children can see the results of their hard work over time and feel proud of their accomplishments.
- Learning responsibility and discipline: Caring for trees requires providing water, nutrients, and sun, cutting branches and keeping pests away. As kids handle these responsibilities over time, they learn the importance and rewards of discipline.
- Building creative skills: Planting is a bit like playing. Children learn ways to accomplish goals by “getting their hands dirty.” As they care for the tree, they can learn how to measure it and document its growth process by drawing it, taking pictures and writing about its progress in a journal.
- Increasing physical activity: Planting requires walking, bending, carrying and cutting, which is good exercise. It’s a good way to stay active and enjoy the outdoors.
- Learning the importance of helping the environment: As discussed in the introduction, the environment is an increasingly crucial concern. A tree is an integral part of maintaining a healthy planet. Children learn that planting makes them part of the solution to our world’s environmental issues.
If you are a homeowner, this really is a great activity with your children. It will be a childhood memory which they can see tangible evidence of each year as they grow older, a source of conversation for you all, and a good thing for the environment. Oftentimes, people feel their efforts to help Mother Earth are meaningless, that the problems are simply too large for one person to rectify. We do not feel that way, and we hope you don’t either. It’s only one tree, but change must start somewhere, and we can all do our part.
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