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5 Benefits of Pets for Child Development

Tom

August 5, 2020
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5 Benefits of Pets for Child Development

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For some time now, pets have become such a big part of American society that presidents are expected to have pets.

Research recommends that you get pets, not for show or humanitarian reasons, but because they can be useful for your child’s development.

If you take proper care of your pets, they can have positive effects on your child. Read on to find out how pets can benefit your child’s development.

1.    Develop Your Child’s Social Skills

Your pet can help your child improve their social skills, such as self-esteem and self-confidence. A review found that a child who grows up with pets is less lonely and has better social skills because they value the companionship of the pets.

Pets with the highest form of interaction and reciprocation, for instance, cats and dogs, have the most significant impact on your child’s development.

Pets offer your child an outlet to talk to and confide. Your child will be confident that the pet will keep their secrets. Pets will also be the gateway to practice their social skills.

For pets to have the best impact on your child’s social skills, expose your child to them when they are under the age of six or slightly over the age of 10.

2.    Teach them Responsibility

Experience is the best teacher. If you own a pet, it can teach your child how to be more responsible. You need to take care of pets, and you need to get your child to help.

You can assign simple tasks to your child like:

  • Cleaning bird cages
  • Walking dogs
  • Giving fresh water daily
  • Feeding
  • Brushing and cleaning pets.

Being responsible for a living pet will develop your child into a caring, sympathetic, committed, and responsible person.

Be careful not to overwhelm your child with pet maintenance responsibilities.

3.    Improve Your Child’s Health

It sounds incredible, but pets can improve your child’s development by improving their health.

Yes, it is a myth that pets cause allergies. In the same way that vaccines work, exposing your child to pets early in their lives, builds their immunity to allergies. Another benefit of being around pets is it reduces your child’s chances of being obese.

Studies have found that pets can help reduce your child’s stress. Stress can affect your child’s mental and biological process, which negatively affects their long-term development. Pets can be a close companion to your child and lift their spirits when they are down. Pets are an excellent way to solve your child’s stress issues.

Besides that, some maintenance activities of your pets improve your child’s physical health. The following activities will develop their muscles:

  • Playing with pets
  • Brushing
  • Washing
  • Walking them

4.    Improves Their Learning Abilities

For years, schools for children with reading disabilities have used dogs as reading therapy tools.

A dog can be a non-judgmental, attentive audience, and reading companion to your child. The dog’s career only steps in to assist if the child has difficulties. The program has been very successful in improving reading skills.

The system works because dogs have a calming effect on a child. Your child’s brain produces oxytocin, which calms and relaxes their nervous system, leading to improved learning abilities.

5.    Teaches them Patience

Pets need training, and that can be difficult. You need a lot of patience to train your pets to do tasks such as:

  • Tricks
  • Good behavior
  • Toilet training
  • Leash training.

Once your child learns that training pets take time, repetition, and patience, they will learn to be more patient with other humans.

Pets can help in your child’s development by teaching them to be responsible, enhances their social development, and teaches them to be patient. Pets can also improve their long-term health and learning abilities. Be sure to take proper care of the pets because treating pets carelessly is unhealthy for all family members.

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Tom has always loved to write since he was little - he wanted to be either a writer or a veterinary doctor, but he ended up being a professional writer while most of his works are based on animals. He was born in San Francisco but later moved to Texas to continue his job as a writer. He graduated from the University of San Francisco where he studied biotechnology. He is happily married and a soon to be father!

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Ryan says:
August 28, 2020 at 7:46 am

Hmm.. I have heard about how owning a pet could influence a child’s learning ability but the part that it help promote immunity is a shocker to me. It makes sense though.

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Ava says:
August 30, 2020 at 5:15 pm

Yes, that’s the truth. It helps builds Active immunity in children and makes them resistant to most allergies.

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Michelle says:
August 28, 2020 at 7:47 am

Thank you for this. I’m sharing right away with some friends who have become hell-bent of not having a pet in their home. I have advised them several times but it seems not to be working. This might be my two cents to them again.

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June says:
August 30, 2020 at 5:17 pm

This got me thinking too. I wouldn’t have thought having a pet at home could help build immunity against allergies. I have always believed otherwise.

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