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   If you want your children to become able gardeners，take steps early.Here are some suggestions given by Jeff Lowenfels to help turn a child into a gardener.
☆Get your child interested in plants
   A plant store is a good place.There，your child can smell and touch the plants.
   Next，let your child buy a plant.Lowenfels still remembers the first plant his father helped him choose when he was six years old.
☆Teach your children well
   Children copy adults.So，let them see how much you enjoy working with plants.
   Another great way is to have them grow plants from seeds（種子）.This is very effective （高效的） when the plants are things they like to eat.Carrots are favorites of many children.
☆Give them a job
   Children like responsibility （責(zé)任）.Find a task that fits their age and ability.
   They can fill containers （容器） with soil，water or provide the right amount （數(shù)量）of light.
☆Take it easy in the garden
   Any adult teaching a child about gardening，needs an easygoing attitude （態(tài)度）.If not，they could put a child off gardening forever.
   Lowenfels shares a story of his daughter.At the time，she was 4 years old and was helping him prepare their flower garden for a flower show.She followed him and "cleaned up，" which meant removing （去除） all the flowers.Instead of getting angry，he simply put the flowers into containers and set them near the bare（光禿禿的）plants.
   "Because of a little attitude adjustment（調(diào)整） on my part， " he writes， "40 years later，my daughter still loves to garden."
（1）Parents need to

take steps early

take steps early

so that their children can become able gardeners.In this article，Jeff Lowenfels offers

four

four

suggestions in all to help parents.
（2）

Smelling and touching the plants

Smelling and touching the plants

in a plant store and buying one can make children

interested in

interested in

plants.
（3）Lowenfels advises parents to show their children that they enjoy

working with plants

working with plants

very much.He also suggests getting children to

grow plants from seeds

grow plants from seeds

.
（4）Giving children a job can develop their sense of

responsibility

responsibility

.The job should be suitable for their

age and ability

age and ability

.
（5）Lowenfels shares a story of her daughter to tell that parents should never get angry when their children

make mistakes

make mistakes

.In this way，the children may still

love to garden

love to garden

when they've grown up.