Pets Make Great Teachers of Compassion

I agree with the information presented in this article. There are so many different concepts children can learn from pets. Children are excellent in making connections between pets and people. They can relate concepts such as color of fur and skin. Teachers have such a rich lesson plan variety when they are presenting information about pets and animals. Children can learn basic life skills from pets. The main thing I like about using pets to teach children is that the children have fun while they are learning. Information that is learned through fun and play is often what children will remember for years to come.

I like how this article represents school, home school, and any other way of having a pet near children and how it explains how beneficial the animal would be towards the child. I enjoyed this article because it brings up some points about animals and how they can use the animals to act better with other children.

I really enjoyed this article. i feel that a class room pet teaches children many different lessons. i feel that some of the best lessoons are learned from a class pet because the children get to see it first had. in the perschool i teach at we have a rabbit and the children love it. they have learned how to be kind to it and feed it. it has taugh them many lessons.

I really enjoyed this article and can identify with what the author is saying. When I was in grade school I had a teacher that had a Rottweiler. She would bring him in for class sometimes and she would make him obey commands and do tricks for us all to see. Then after she did that, we were able to play with him and to pet him, but we had to take turns. This experience I had can relate to the article because this breed of dog is commonly seen as a vicious dog. They use them in movies to portray a picture of a ferocious, dangerous dog. What my teacher taught us though, is that not all dogs that belong to this breed are like that. It is the way that the dogs are raised, just as humans are that gives them a certain outlook and can make them aggressive towards others. I never fully realized all the things that having a classroom pet can foster. Reading this article really opened my eyes to why teachers have pets in the classroom and also some activities they can do with their classroom that includes the pet.

I really like what sara says about how pets can teach children to be compasioned, and to care about others. This is one of the best articles I have read about pets being great teachers. I personsaly believe that pets can teach a person so many things, from manners to respect. Children are able to connect with pets, because they are both relatively small and sensitive, and with that children learn to respect not only their classmates, but anyone around them. Pets as teachers is a really good idea, and children will be more flexible to it since they care more for each other and are more sensitive to the world.

I really enjoyed reading this article. Children need somebody or even something else in their life they can feel comfortable around. Pets help children learn to play safely and treat others caringly. Children that see pets with injuries or disabilities help them to associate with classmates with disabilities and how to treat them fairly. Pets are a good way to help a child with being shy or sad. I love my animals to death and if anything happened to them I dont know what I'd do!

I loved this article and I totally agree that pets can make great teachers of compassion. Having a pet teaches a child so many things such as responsibility, as well as how to act when a something is a baby; when an animal or a person is a baby you have to be gentler than normal. Children can also observe if the pet isn’t feeling normal based on a day to day reaction to certain things.

The author has brought up an interesting point. I learned a lot by reading this article. I have never thought about the lessons that children learn from having a pet in the classroom or at home other than learning responsibility. When learning is fun, the information is more likely to stick in the brain, not only for children but for anyone. To children, having a pet is the highlight of their life. It is something new and furry and it moves, who wouldn’t love something like that? I never had a class pet so I missed out on that experience, but if and when I have my own classroom I will absolutely have a class pet!

This was a wonderful article. Pets are a great way to teach children responsibility, respect, kindness, and more. Pets are a great way for children to see what it is like to take care of something. Children can see that pets have feelings too and pets can get hurt easily. Pets are wonderful for the classroom. Great article :)

Before I read this article, I had never thought about doing lessons around a classroom pet. Or the ways that you can use an animal to clam and outgoing child down, or let a shy child shine. I really like how this article includes homeschoolers too.

i never thought of a pet this way, but now that i read this article; i totally agree with what the author is trying to convey. i am amazed on what pets can do that can help children grow as a person.

I think that this article has great content. The concept of having an animal in the classroom is great, it helps children learn all about how to treat others and be caring towards others.

I really like this article. It shows a lot of ways that having a pet integrated into the classrooms day to day activities can help children to learn many things. There were things such as having an injured pet in the room that relates to student with disabilities that I may not have thought of. I also really like the point made about having different color animals to show tolerance for race. When I was younger I had a tarantula in the room as a class pet. Some children were afraid of it but after a while it because a loved pet.

I liked this article because I agree with the concept of having an animal. For a child owning a pet can be a very new and exciting thing. “One of the most powerful lessons that pets can teach us is how to be compassionate to one another despite our differences. Students don’t have to have a pet in the home. The classroom pet can help teach many lessons.” I agree with this 100%. I believe having a pet will build such responsibility for a child. It will also show the child how to manage tasks.

I really enjoyed this article. This is something that I never would have thought about. Children really learn more from pets than we think. Most of the topics brought up in this article are so simple but yet no one ever thinks about how true this really is. The author discussed animal difference in color and personality, and that is so true. Animals teach us sympathy, compassion, love, respect. What animals teach us is truly infinite.

I never really took the time to think about how much a pet can teach a young child. As stated in the article, as a child I learned responsibility and the concept of death through having pets. I believe that classrooms should have pets. It can provide for a great learning aid for many activities, as well as the fact that it teaches children so much, such as how to take care of something smaller than them, and the differences in the animals. A pet in the classroom is a great idea that many teacher should take into consideration.

I never knew having a pet at home or in class was such a beneficial thing for children. It helps them learn about diversity, teaches them compassion, as well as brings a safe zone for them to ask questions that is better expressed when talking about an animal rather than if the child that has a broken limb is sitting there and the children begun asking questions that may make the child fee bad. In this short article it clearly expressed that every classroom should have a pet, or variety of pets because it helps children in more ways than one. While growing up I had pets, but they died or ran away. I never thought about it but it helped me with funerals and family drama later on in my life. Natural things are the best environments and lessons we could offer children and anyone for that matter, we just need to remember to bring nature back into the classroom, not only material wise, but safe pets also.

This is such a great article in my opinion, it made me see things about pets that I didn’t consider before. I really liked when the article stated that children can be shy and for them to come out of their comfort zone they will introduce themselves to the pets. When I become a teacher I will take into great consideration of having a pet in my room.