care guide

How to tend

A care guide is a set of instructions for maintaining something—typically a plant, pet, or product.

Care guides explain what conditions something needs to thrive: The care guide recommends bright indirect light and weekly watering.

They appear on product labels, in pet stores, and across gardening websites.

Related

tending · maintenance · tips · advice · houseplant · indoor plants · plant parent · green thumb · watering · feeding · soil mix · beginner · expert · tutorial · quick reference · growing · keeping · health

Opposites
explicitness of knowledge

care guideintuitive knowledge

Understanding without explicit learning

instinct · common sense · tacit knowledge · intuition · folk wisdom

guidance vs. neglect

care guideneglect

Failure to provide care

abandonment · willful ignorance · inattention · carelessness · indifference

information structure

care guideguesswork

Conclusions drawn without proof

improvisation · winging it

Family

care, guide, cares, caring, cared, careful, carefully, careless, carelessly

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G