Teach Your Kids to Love Pets # 5 Put the Pet Bed in Your Child’s Room One of my friends has 5 children (a blended family) and luckily each child can have his/her own... Continue Reading →
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Teach Your Kids to Love Pets 4 – Take Them Along
Teach Your Kids to Love Pets # 4 Include Your Children When You Exercise Your Pet People often take the dog with them when they take the kids to the park. That’s good!... Continue Reading →
Teach Your Kids to Love Pets 3 – Get Them Involved
Teach Your Kids to Love Pets # 3 – Get the Kids Involved in Training Your Pets Training your pet means teaching him the skills he needs to be a valued member of our family.... Continue Reading →
Teach Your Kids to Love Pets 2 – Be An Example
Teach Your Kids to Love Pets #2 Be An Example No matter what we say to our children, it’s what we DO that they remember. For children to learn to care for a pet, they need... Continue Reading →
Teach Your Kids to Love Pets 1 – Show Them How
Teach Your Kids to love Pets - Show them How to Care for Pets All kids seem to have a natural desire to love pets. As Charles Schulz said, who can resist “a warm... Continue Reading →
Benefits of Pets for Kids – CONFIDENCE
Pets Give Kids Confidence Researcher, Robert E. Bierer, Ph.D., studied the interaction of 126 children age 10-12. Ninety-three of them were children with dogs. Bierer said he... Continue Reading →
When Kids Are Old Enough to Care for Pets
My earliest memory of a pet is my cat, Fluffy. I was about five. I brought Fluffy to my pretend school room every day. She sat in my doll’s high chair. I liked to dress her in... Continue Reading →
Why Parents Have to Care for Pets
Not too long ago a bunch of us were waiting for a meeting to start and were telling each other about our pets. Steve told us he was thinking of getting his kids a dog but he... Continue Reading →
Benefits of Pets For Kids – COMMUNICATION
Lots of research has been done on the benefits of children having a pet. One of the basic things we know is that pets help kids communicate. To get their cat or dog, bunny or... Continue Reading →
Benefits of Pets for Kids – Bonding With Each Other
Children Bond With Dogs - Researchers tell us that children bond with dogs more than any other pet. The good news is that dogs are known to prefer people to other species - so it... Continue Reading →