If you have a love for animals, chances are that you want your children to have that love too. Animals are great friends to people of all ages and a great learning experience too. Starting that kind of bond with animals while your children are young is really important for many reasons and here are just some of them. 1. Increase empathy and compassion Children that are raised around animals are more likely to develop these positive traits because they are learning to care about something that needs our positive attention and responsibility to keep alive and well-cared for. Additionally, animals are empathetic and compassionate themselves and through their own love and caring, they teach their own lessons to our children. This way, you will reduce an animal cruelty that is spreading like a plague these days because of irresponsible parents who don’t teach them to respect animals. 2. Provide opportunity for responsibility As children grow up with an animal, they learn to be more
