Raise Children in Your Garden

Reader Contribution by Sheryl Campbell and Bouquet Banquet
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Along with vegetables and flowers, raise a few children in your garden. Don’t keep all that gardening pleasure to yourself. Share it with the children in your life. Children enjoy learning new things, they delight in seeing things grow, and they love to play in the dirt. Gardening can benefit them in so many ways.

Immune Boost

But they’ll get dirty! Of course they will, and it will be good for them. Dr. Mary Ruebush, immunologist and author of Why Dirt is Good: 5 Ways to Make Germs Your Friends, counts letting kids play in the dirt as the start of building their immune systems.

“Let your child be a child,” she says. “Dirt is good. If your child isn’t coming in dirty every day, they’re not doing their job. They’re not building their immunological army. So it’s terribly important.” (CBS News, 2009).

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