School Gardening ? How Horticultural Work Can Bolster A Young Person?s Self-Esteem
Posted on April 7, 2008 - Filed Under Gardening | Leave a Comment
Many social ills among young people can be traced to the unrelenting power of peer-group pressure and low self esteem. Can gardening projects in schools go some way in resisting these twin evils?
You do not have to be a child psychologist to recognize the link between self-esteem and achievement. While not every one can be an Albert Einstein or a Tiger Woods, every child, the severely challenged excepted unfortunately, can attain reasonable standards of proficiency in virtually all subjects and activities. There are basically two things holding back the vast army of under-achievers. One is peer group pressure and the other is a lack of self-belief. The two obviously feed off each other, because the emotional independence that stems from a healthy sense of self worth, is the only real weapon that can resist the tyrannical pressure to conform.
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