Having a Dog Helps
Tweens Learn Empathy
Studies show that kids 10-12 only talk to their parents
between 11 and 33 minutes per week! At a time when developing empathy and
learning to be sensitive to the feelings and needs of others is critical, this
lack of communication with adults is alarming. Dr. Robert E. Bierer’s studies
of kids with and without dogs asked tweens 72 questions about their
relationships with others. No matter what their ethnicity or background was,
the 93 children who had dogs showed much more empathy toward others and had
more self-esteem than the 33 kids who didn’t have a dog.
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