{"id":335,"date":"2017-12-07T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/?p=335"},"modified":"2017-11-10T05:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T05:45:51","slug":"how-does-gardening-benefit-childrens-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/2017\/12\/07\/how-does-gardening-benefit-childrens-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Gardening Benefit Children\u2019s Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2017\/11\/1-300x199.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2017\/11\/1-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2017\/11\/1.png 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We live in a digital world today, and there is a growing concern from parents that kids are spending more time in front of the screens. The Ryves Up! Program can help you with it. We provide children with more opportunities to get in touch with the nature. In this process, they will learn how to appreciate the beauty of different natural species and harvest foods through their own hard work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gardening has a lot of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/expert-tips-advice\/2016\/03\/gardening-kids-affects-childs-brain-body-soul\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">advantages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for kids. It encourages children to eat healthier. Through their engagement on the fields, children would cherish the foods they grow, and frankly speaking, half the fun of gardening is being able to eat what you grow. It will help them better understand the importance of keeping a balanced diet. Obesity is a less possible problem for them, considering gardening an increase in their outdoor activities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kids love to play with mud. Normally, parents might think that there are lots of germs in the soil, so it releases kids in an environment full of germs and pathogens. But <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussen.edu\/degrees\/education\/blog\/gardening-for-kids-benefits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lack of childhood exposure to germs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> may actually raise their risks of getting diseases like asthma, allergies and autoimmune in their grown-up lives. So getting dirty while gardening may strengthen a child\u2019s immunity and overall health.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a digital world today, and there is a growing concern from parents that kids are spending more time in front of the screens. The Ryves Up! Program can help you with it. We provide children with more opportunities to get in touch with the nature. In this process, they will learn how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/2017\/12\/07\/how-does-gardening-benefit-childrens-lives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Does Gardening Benefit Children\u2019s Lives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[83,125,134],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-garden","tag-healthy","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.rose-hulman.edu\/ryvesup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}