Instead, parents who teach their children to take accountability for productive mistakes that lead to growth and consequential mistakes that lead to constructive criticism plant the seeds of ...

Have younger children find simple items like a big leaf, something fuzzy, or a round seed. Older children can identify the different insects and animals the native plants attract. No-bore chores.

Then the children find different ways to represent the rain falling and the sun shining before developing the activity into a paired sequence in which one child is the seed growing and the other ...