Smart Parenting: Teach Kids About Planting And Gardening For A Smarter Generation

Teaching your children at their early stage to plant, gardening and care for plants can educate the children and will have an impact on the progress of their intelligence capabilities. Teach children to plant and care for the plants will encourage children's spirit to develop their emotional intelligence. It was revealed by Psychologist from University of Medan Area (UMA), Irna Minauli, MPsi in Medan, North Sumatra.

By planting flowers or other plant species, children can learn how to love, cherish and care about others. When planting flowers, children are trained to be patient when caring for these flowers to flourish and not die.

In addition, she said, children are also trained to keep attention tended flower development, simultaneous efforts to build a child's emotional intelligence. Intelligence can also be developed by caring pets that the children preferred.

The results of the planting process may have an impact on the child's social relationships with their surrounding community. So that children can establish good relationships with others. In fact, children will be able to adapt and understand each other, love and care for his friends.

The good quality emotional intelligence (emotional quotient) of children, will have a major impact on intelectual intelligence (intelligence quotient) of the children. However, parents should continue to guide the education of children so that their intelligence will be continuously honed. "Evidently, many people who succeeded because they have emotional intelligence," he said.

Children's Siesta And Its Relationship With Behavioral Disturbances, Depression, Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder, And Anxiety

Children's Siesta was not only beneficial to the fitness course. Research shows that children with rarely siesta tend to run problems in their psychosocial function. This was the conclusion of researchers represented in the SLEEP 2009, annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies that take place in Seattle, U.S, this month.

Psychosocial be defined as related to psychiatric and social. Psychosis, of course, comes from within, while the social aspect comes from the outside. Both aspects of this very influential in the growth of children.

In research, experts from Pennsylvania State University examine the impact of the siesta in the 62 children, where 23 percent of those rarely siesta.

In general, the sleeping times of those two groups in 24 hours is not much different, but the test of behavior shows that children rarely siesta the more experienced behavioral disturbances such as depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and anxiety.

"Results from this study is the relationship between two things. We can not make conclusions as a result of causality. So can not be said that children who hyperactive and difficult to set is because they do not siesta. Further research is still needed," one of the researchers Dr.Brian Crosby said.

Still, Crosby said that the siesta is very important in children who are in a period of growth. Unfortunately, most children over 4 years beginning rarely siesta.

Lack of time to sleep on the day of children was due to various things, such as the number of children's after school activities, or even because parents are prohibited it, because many children who do siesta is difficult to sleep at night.