What Children Learn When They Have A Pet
 

Children learn lots about life when they are allowed to have a pet. Parents and children alike learn lots about having a pet in the home. It is a wise choice to raise a pet in the home for everyone. Besides all this there is lots of fun and companionship that is shared throughout the life of the pet and the life of the child.

In this article I will discuss 5 things a child and the parent's as well learn from owning a pet.

*Responsibility*

The first thing that they learn is Responsibility. They are responsible for taking care of this pet. They are responsible to make sure it is healthy and loved and put above their needs. It also gives the child something they feel they can control. Most children are controlled by someone else such as parent's teachers and the like. To learn and to grow they also need to have a feeling of some kind of control in their own lives. This is returned with lots of love and kisses and hugs and companionship that will last the pet’s lifetime and will be remembered for the child's lifetime.

*Sharing* 

A child will learn to share themselves, their food, their hurts and pains and will do this often. It is a good way to get the child to begin to understand that sharing is a thing that is needed to help others. It is especially important if there is only one child in the family. Sharing is so important for society to work and this is the very beginning of that.

Sharing also comes back from the pet. Dogs and cats will sleep with the child and will be there to comfort the child when they are sick. Some pets have been known to appear when the child is at death's door. Sharing is always a good thing to learn.

 *Patience* 

Patience is a hard one to learn for children. It is hard because children don't have much of this. They are at the stage that everything needs to be on a NOW basis. Ha-ha, much like some people in society can't wait something out for something better to come along. When training a pet it is paramount that the child be patient. Pets don't learn the same as humans and the child gets a sense of that.

A pet has patience too in that it will wait diligently by the door for the child to come home from school. For a while at least until the pet learns the timing and when the child will come home. They will wait patiently for feeding time. When the child does re-appear they are given lots of tail wagging kisses and hugs in return and reward for coming home to them.

*Caring* 

Some pets need more caring than others. Dogs and cats need brushed often so that their coat is shining and healthy. All pets need touch and pet as well as humans and this is the way they can have that in each other’s lives. When the pet becomes ill they need some extra caring. They may be on meds or have a bandage that needs taken care of and the child should learn how to do this. In that respect the parent's teach the child to do this and therefore makes this a family affair. I am not sure on the statistics of this but in my observation a child with a pet is more stable and treats others better or more equal than those who haven't owned a pet.

Get a pet and teach them both about the goodness of sharing, caring, patience, responsibility companionship and most of all the love they can stand and more. It doesn't have to be a cat or dog. Fish also give these same qualities and can be trained too as well as Reptiles, Hamsters, Mice, Gerbils, farm animals and birds. It all comes down to the way we treat our pets is the way we will treat other humans in this world.

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere

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