by pa_friendly_guy » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:43 pm
What other things have people done to get their kids or grandkids involved in gardening, or nature, or permiculture, or out door activitys, or out door sports, or hunting, or fishing or peresurving food, or carpentry or anything that we as adults feel might be important for them to know later on in life. So many kids today just sit in front of the TV and play video games. Mindless activitys that don't teach many life skills. Spending time with them is a key element as far as I am concerned, quality time where you talk with them one on one as a real live person, not a child to be talked down to, but a real person with feelings. They really do pick up on the difference. My oldest Grandson has wanted to plant seeds for the last several years. His Mother is not a gardener but lets him plant his seeds. The results have been poor because they do not know what is a plant and what is a weed. But he seems to have an interest in planting things in the ground and watching them grow. I want to encourage him in this effort but I am not there to show him personally, they live 2 hours away from me. I have let them have things in my garden. Each Grandkid got to pick a pumpkin and watch it grow through the summer. In Oct they got their pumpkin to carve as a Jack-O-Lantern of their own. I guess because they are not here as much as I would like I feel that I am not able to do my job as Pap Pap. Any sugestions of how to bridge that gap?
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