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dpack
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wellington womble
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15834
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Posted: Tue May 19, 20 7:05 am Post subject: |
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Activating a child of that age can be tricky. Try giving her a bit of the allotment to have as her own, finding jobs she enjoys and giving her them, even if she doesn't do them very well, or get her to deal with a particular crop from sowing to eating. Any of those might work, but might not; each ten-ager is different. The plus is that she sees growing food as normal, and later in life will probably take to it herself. Our son is 40 and has just got a garden, so is starting to grow things; he had some spare onion sets from me, and I will hand on my spare cabbages. As a child, he liked 'mining' potatoes, which meant going over the bed again to get the ones he missed, but at least he got some interest in gardening. |
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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
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Posted: Wed May 20, 20 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Done all that, and more. Bizarrely, she was quite happy to go up and shovel compost in the cold, but now it’s a case of planting pumpkins and a bit of weeding in the sunshine, she’s a nightmare to motivate. She’s ok for a bit while we are up there, but then she’s a pita! Normally I would go while she was at school, and in a year or two she will be old enough to be left alone (and up until not long ago, I would simply have picked her up and strapped her into the car, like it or not!)
It doesn’t help that there is no water, and things aren’t growing very well. We need rain so badly. |
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Nick
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dpack
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wellington womble
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Mistress Rose
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wellington womble
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Mistress Rose
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wellington womble
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