Now, 'kids' is one of the best reasons I've heard for planting something! When I was a kid I wasn't particularly fond of the work but there's no better way to see results for work than in the garden. Now I look back on it and appreciate it even more for the time I spent with my father when we planted. Not to mention the family bonfire in the fall where we threw all the cornstalks and vines in a pile along with some other firewood to keep it going. We had weiners and marshmallows that night then come spring the ash would be tilled into the garden. The food picked fresh from the garden then straight to the table was a good feeling too.
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That is basically my goal for our farm. I want my kids involved in the planting, caring and nurturing as well as the harvesting from our garden. When the apples, grapes, blueberries and blackberries come in I am sure so see the harvest yields low as they will be "pick one, eat one" mentality! Ha Ha
With kids and with dogs! Don't let that cute weimaraner get a taste for them. Somehow it happens that we never have any raspberries anywhere near ground level and our strawberries are fewer and farther between. The blackberries never seem to grow along the edges and I have to wade into the thicket to pick them and the dogs follow me very closely when I'm picking the berries that grow high off the ground (like huckleberries). (grin)
We also have a lot fewer of the apples that get dropped and are left to feed the deer. We used to call our first dog 'little doggie appleseed' because if she wasn't hungry she'd take the apples and hide them thinking she'd come back later. I think most of them ended up being fodder for other small critters.