This Garden Helps To Grown Our Kids! Welcome to April 21, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate the places that we grow. The next time you’re out enjoying your backyard, you can thank your refrigerator. I know that sounds crazy, but if it weren’t for the popularity of refrigerators, the backyard would not have become the place to laugh, play, and barbecue. Yards used to be a place where people grew vegetables and kept animals. There wasn’t a good way to preserve lots of food all at once, so anything left over from crops would be stored in root cellars. Once refrigerators became popular after World War II, the backyard became less about work and more about play. And dads have been complaining about weeds on their lawns ever since. April is Lawn and Garden Month, so grab yourself a lawn chair and a drink, and get outside for some fresh air. Most of us know that kindergarten is where kids go from learning at home to learning at school. This very important stage of child development was recognized by teacher Friedrich Wilhelm August Frobel in 1837, when he started the first kindergarten in Blankenburg Germany. Realizing that children learn through play and experience, his class was designed to ease this transition in a child’s life. Here in the United States, the first kindergarten was opened in Watertown, Wisconsin in 1856. It was formally adopted nationwide in 1873. On National Kindergarten Day, we celebrate this garden that allows our kids to grow up gently. I’m Anna Devere and I’m Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day.
