Companions For Learning Life Skills

A generation ago young folk walked to school and roamed over a territory measured in square miles. It was common to see groups of unsupervised children at parks or just about anywhere with someone’s unleashed dog. Few came to harm. Children were dog savvy.

They learned this from parents, peers, extended whanau’s family pets, and popular literature. It has been said that dogs and kids go together like marmite on toast. Henry Ward Beecher was right to suggest." The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic." It is unsurprising to find that empirical research clearly shows just how valuable dogs are to pre-teens and adolescents in promoting self esteem and empathy for others. MORE>>