For instance, if a child spills his or her milk, the child should help clean it up. Organized sports and lessons are great for children to a point and within reason. However, too many activities can actually do more harm than good. It's important for children to have downtime to play freely, to explore and not to be programmed in everything they do. Through free play, children learn about and master important life skills.
Book language has a different sound than the spoken word.
When children begin hearing nursery rhymes, for example, they begin to play with the language themselves and that plays a major factor in literacy development. There's the European Tapien and Verbena. Also, look at the New Wave series, like the Purple Wave. One plant can grow up to six feet in diameter. Another Verbena is the 'Homestead Purple.' which again covers the ground in a nonstop blooming purplish color.