Students love companionship, but it also comes with specific pros and cons. You must have known enough cons of pet ownership; that’s why second thoughts of making pets a part of your family photo frame are there. Right? Well, before your second thoughts win, I’d love to share a few reasons why pets play a vital positive role in the physical, mental, emotional, and academic growth of your child.
With years of experience as a private tutor and the privilege of growing up around pets, I am utterly confident to say that having an animal or pet in your life makes you a better human and an outstanding learner! Let us discover the top ten reasons, or you may call them the benefits of owning pets. Also, I added a bonus tip at the end of the article for you.
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Pets roam around with positive energy and help develop positive feelings in their owner. Parenting a pet reminds you of your obligations and responsibility to nurture, protect, preserve and care for all life. Kids or students growing up with pets understand the cost of commitments. Pets are the civilized and safe recipients of secrets and thoughts – owners often share and talk with their animals. They are assumed to be the best listeners. Great for developing non-verbal communication, empathy, healthy relationships, and compassion. They portray the meaning of humanizing.
The more you interact with pets, the fewer chances of catching or developing specific allergies such as hay fever, asthma, or eczema. Likewise, having more pets comes with more benefits. Health psychologists around the globe have carried out numerous researches showing that the immune system of pet-owning children produces an antibody that helps them fight off infections better and faster than children without pets. What’s better than finding a companion at home and having fewer days off school due to colds or flu?!
Everyone has a regular go-to routine, and so do animals. We might have an option of excuses, but pets are not familiar with this term. They follow their daily schedule religiously and expect the same from their owner. Owning a pet hones the sense of responsibility of the students. Moreover, looking after a pet, taking care of its food, cleanliness, or shelter, or taking them out for a walk gives them a taste of achievement. This is how students learn to be responsible and care for others’ needs around them.
When it comes to a go-to comfort place, pet owners never take a single second to reconsider their decision to prefer their pet over anything else. Pets welcome with the indescribable measure of love. Bringing pets at home would fill the emptiness of your child, which you never knew they had. They respect privacy, kindness, patience and teach the same to their owner. Nothing can brush off the stress of academic tasks or struggles than coming home to a pet.
Pets help developmentally challenged kids with learning. The presence of a nonjudgmental pal with paws encourages students to be themselves. Parents and tutors couldn’t deny that curling up with a pet and reading a book to them are a lot more joyous and relaxing for their children than reading in a separate room on a study table. They enrich the classroom and other learning experiences; that is why many schools have a class pet. In a nutshell, interacting with animals instills respect for life and a sense of responsibility.
There is no substitute for human social circles’ advantages, but furry friends also have many benefits. They provide enough companionship that their owner never gets lonely or depressed. If your child will live in dorms or off-campus for the first time, sending a pet along would be the best way to help them grow through the difficulties of new beginnings. Bonding with pets helps students strengthen their social skills and can do better in the school setting.
Pets need a great deal of exercise, encouraging laughter, playfulness, running errands, walking, which means their owner also needs to stay active and exercise daily. The physical health of pets should not be taken for granted as it also helps boost the immune system and increases the energy level of the owner. They are motivated to play, adopt a healthy lifestyle, seek adventure, be affectionate, loyal, and physically fit.
Animals tend to live in the moment; they don’t stress over the past or future — perfect four feet company to rely on when feeling down. Pets are good for emotional well-being morale, helps to ease anxiety, and provide sensory stress relief. Always available to lend a sympathetic ear add joy and unconditional love to your life. Pets or animals are the only potential factor in the well-being of students and reduce the high risk of academic failure. Dogs are therapeutic for students at school by Middlesex University, as they added some dogs to the staff list, and the results were amazing.
Pets have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. One should have a dog as a life coach. Do you know this saying? Not only do pets provide entertainment and affection, but they also teach respect, loyalty, compassion, responsibility, help build self-esteem, social skills, patience, coping with loss, leadership skills, and a lot more. If you ever get a chance to own a pet, take advantage of it, as they will teach valuable life lessons to you and your child.
The world is filled with the stories of people who were significantly traumatized or actively suicidal, but their pets gave them a reason to live. Pets respond to vocalization, provide presence and companionship and take care of their owner’s safety. Similarly, dogs are known for saving their owners from imminent death. Not only this, the intuition of animals is quite strong. They sense who deserves to be trusted by their owners and who isn’t. Students with pets around them are found to be less bullied.
If you are going to buy a pet for the very first time in your life, here are a few things to consider:
In this complex world, the simplicity of the human-animal bond is endearing. Pets are friends for life. If your child wishes to own a pet, fulfill it as they will love your child unquestioningly and would never criticize them like the brutal world out there. You will also enjoy the pet’s companionship, physical health, and psychological benefits as an adult or parent. Wrapping up this article with a quote by Jon Katz:
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What’s one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
Jon Katz
