Pets, children's best friends

Today, we celebrate World Animal Day and diving into this theme I have found a phrase that I am happy to reproduce: 'all children should have two things: a dog , and a mother who lets them have a dog. ' It is not necessary that the chosen animal is a dog, it is just an example, each family should ch

Today, we celebrate World Animal Day and diving into this theme I have found a phrase that I am happy to reproduce: 'all children should have two things: a dog , and a mother who lets them have a dog. '

It is not necessary that the chosen animal is a dog, it is just an example, each family should choose the pet that they like the most.

Benefits of pets for children

Many experts agree that it is proven that children who have pets are more balanced, resistant and tolerant than those who do not. They learn to relate to others and to take responsibility. Educate children to like animals. They are born with a natural sympathy towards them, sympathy that grows or diminishes in the course of life, according to the influence that adults exercise on them.

Parents, as educators of our children, we must encourage love for nature and doing so also means motivating children's interest in animals and educating them to respect and treat them responsibly. Few things are so beautiful throughout the day that see how the dog is happy to see the children when they return from school. He jumps, flutters, gets on his feet, licks them ... in short, he organizes a whole party around them and they have fun playing with him. It is wonderful to attend those happy and pleasant experiences. On the way home, they enjoy thinking about the animal that awaits them and that considers them as their best friend.

In appreciation of everything we receive from pets, on World Animal Day, we all want to thank their fidelity and nobility that grow our humanity, considering them our fellow human beings, and as San Francisco de Asís called them, our 'brothers ' And is that on October 4, has been instituted for the celebration of World Animal Day, in commemoration of Saint Francis of Assisi, considered the first human who conceived himself in relation to all things created, and considered , regardless of the difference, that we are all creatures of God including in this all the animate and inanimate reality.

In 1929, on October 4 was declared World Animal Day at the initiative of the World Organization for Animal Protection at the congress held in Vienna, and in 1980 Pope John Paul II declared him Patron of Animals and Animals. Ecologists, moment from which this celebration takes more boom worldwide, celebrated in many countries with the Blessing of Pets.

World Animal Day is the international name of this event that transcends borders, politics and religion and unites all people who care about animals. Exhibitions, raising funds for animal shelters, bringing schools closer to nature and more are the activities that will be held in many countries.

Marisol Nuevo. Editor of Guiainfantil.com