In the modern society there are supporters of the idea that it is vital for children in their primary state to learn about vegetable planting and taking care of animals. From my perspective, the benefits of the aforementioned lessons do undeniably surpassed the drawbacks.
On the one hand, there are certain detrimental consequences when teaching primary children to grow vegetables and keep animals. The first and foremost adverse result is that children may accidentally do some harmful actions to the plants or animals under their care. It is irrefutable that primary children may not have a comprehensive understanding about responsibility. Therefore, they may not keep up with all the requirements in order to taking care of vegetables and animals, leading these creatures to a fatal ending. According to a report by an non-government organization in the US, most of the gold-fishes kept by under-10-year-old children cannot survive more than 3 weeks as a result of starvation and unhygienic tanks. In addition, primary children may have trauma and several mental illness originated from the loss of life of their vegetables and animals, which the guilty feelings burden their shoulder. For example, more than half of the examined adults in a social experiments in Japan are reported to be have distress and stain from the passing away of their pets, which obsess them for the rest of their life.
Nevertheless, the beneficial impacts of learning to have a garden or take care of animals outweigh these aforementioned harmful consequences. Firstly, it provides children with an opportunity to learn about responsibility and commitment. By having a little garden or a lovely pet, primary children are put into a situation in which they have accountability for those living things. As long as there is appropriate guidance about the importance of life, those youngsters will, for the first time, have an experience about trying to be responsible. A science research by a NYC university proved that children who approach to responsibility and commitment sooner have a tendency to grow becoming a better and more successful person in their later life when compares to their peers. Secondly, growing vegetable and taking care of animals may help children to develop new practical, soft skills and abilities that can be useful when they grow up. Organizing or time-managing can be suitable cases in point. For instance, in order to have a rich and healthy garden, a detailed water schedule should be the done by the primary gardeners as one of the prerequisite.
To summarize, although there is certain drawbacks such as unintentionally harmful actions children may commit on vegetables or animals when taking care of them as well as the following trauma after that, having a garden or keeping animals at a young age are very beneficial since it provide children to learn about responsibility, commitment and useful skills for their adult lives.