Get weeds out by their roots.

Whether you’re growing finicky roses, tender delphinium or indomitable hostas, weeds will try to snuff the life out of a healthy plant. All flowers are susceptible to being attacked by the nasty greens. The trick to preventing weeds from harming flowers is to dig beneath the weed’s roots to keep it from returning. Pulling off the top and leaving the roots behind (which I have been guilty of doing) allows them to rob the flower’s roots from vital nutrients. Then the plant will limp along looking pretty enough on the surface for a while, but eventually, those remnant roots will get the best of the plant.

What weeds do your kids have working in their lives that threaten their emotional, intellectual or physical health?

Some weeds might look pretty on the surface but make no mistake, if you don’t help your kids steer clear of them, they can eventually strangle the life out of them. Here are the ones that I frequently see erupting in kids’ lives: an unhealthy friendship, drugs, drinking, kids being sexually active, addiction to electronics and more. Weeds in your children’s lives come in all different forms – so when you…