{"id":498,"date":"2009-05-15T06:53:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2009-05-15T06:53:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:53:15","slug":"planting-a-seed-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Planting A Seed (For Children)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoBodyText3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">By using nature, you can give children a healthy opportunity to understand death\u2014by exploring life cycles and the changes that happen in living things, children will be better prepared when a family member or friend dies. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">Use the following natural phenomenon and opportunities: a dried fallen leaf, a wilted flower, and the death of an insect, bird, or class pet to discuss death as a part of the life cycle. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">Explain that death comes to all living things. It is inevitable and irreversible. It is the biological way of life.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">Children love to care for and nurture living things. And they especially love to devote themselves to nurturing something that they have planted\u2014to watch it grow.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">Start them out with planting seeds indoors\u2026something that sprouts quickly and grows fast, like a bean, sunflower or snapdragon. Then set the seedlings outside on a sheltered patio or under the light shade of a tree for a few days before you transplant them into the ground.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">Your child will be fascinated with the changes they see as the plant grows, matures and dies\u2026and you\u2019ll be able to talk them through the life and death cycle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/\/?page_id=75\" target=\"_blank\">Melanie Hack<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor of <a href=\"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Who Killed My Sister, My friend<\/a><br \/>\nRead an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melaniehack.com\/blog\/?page_id=74\" target=\"_blank\">excerpt now<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/\/?page_id=83\" target=\"_blank\">TV Shows and Clips<\/a> about the Death of Cindy James<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By using nature, you can give children a healthy opportunity to understand death\u2014by exploring life cycles and the changes that happen in living things, children will be better prepared when a family member or friend dies. Use the following natural phenomenon and opportunities: a dried fallen leaf, a wilted flower, and the death of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-teens-and-grief","category-life-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}