Planting a garden with your children is one of those activities where multiple lessons and development happen. Children need to move and they need to be involved in creative play to learn and grow. Planting a garden provides both of these activities and more. Plus, planting a garden can also teach children values such as Character Seeds: include spreading kindness to others, being generous, helpful and compassionate to others The Beauty of Diversity: Just as kids love to plant a variety of fruits and veggies in their gardens, diversity and varieties of people is what makes the world a colorful and interesting place. Pruning: just like it’s necessary to prune your fruit trees, pruning is necessary when raising kids. Kids need parents to guide and correct them and help them to “trim” their branches of personalities that are getting in the way of their growth and potential.