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 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 →
Benefits of Pets for Kids – Petting Calms Everyone
When my kids were growing up, our backyard was the neighborhood play yard. We had a great climbing tree, garden spots, lots of hiding places and a special “structure.” The... 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 →
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 →
Pets Help Children Communicate
Even the smallest children will want to communicate more when they have a pet to talk about. They want to talk to us about their pet and tell us what s/he did, where he sleeps,... Continue Reading →
Kids Learn Life and Death from Pets
Children are fascinated by baby animals at an early age because of their size, their warm body, their 4 legs, the way they "talk," they can see and feel it breathe and feel the... Continue Reading →