Gardening with Kids

🧠 Gardening stimulates the brain in a perfect balance between the amygdala (emotion center) and pre-frontal cortex (thinking center). Scientific evidence has shown that gardening can help enhance emotional intelligence for children in these areas of the brain! Listen along to learn all the skills gardening enhances.

🌱 Watch this video below to the end to see our girls (almost 7, 5, & 2) working in the garden as I give ideas of how to engage these specific skill sets and character attributes in kids as we garden (catch the tips in the captions).

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📄Study Reference: Horticulture Activity Program for Improving Emotional Intelligence, Prosocial Behavior, and Scientific Investigation Abilities and Attitudes in Kindergartners by Sun-Ae Park, et al. 2016

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