How to avoid the "three-minute fever" of keeping pets

A mother bought a cat baby at home, and her 2-year-old daughter liked it very much. She kissed and stroked the baby cat in her arms. Mother is very happy to see her daughter get along well with the cat. Unexpectedly, one day, when my daughter was playing with the cat, she got excited and grabbed the hair on the cat's back and "threw sandbags" ... The hair on the poor cat's back lost a large piece of skin.

Mother is a little worried. "Why are children so violent? Is it a personality problem? " It is impossible to judge whether the little girl's character is violent or not. But if the child is too young, because the mind is not enough, he may inadvertently do harm to the pet and fail to take good care of the pet. Then keeping a pet may not reach the meaning expected by parents for such a young child.

Is the child's mind "enough" to keep a pet? At least meet the following three points first

1, children don't scratch and fight when they see pets.

Parents may have the experience that when you pick up a 6-or 7-month-old baby, the baby may suddenly hold on to an adult's hair or a necklace around his neck. Why is this happening? This is the baby's grasping reflex. Generally speaking, babies have grasping reflex's period within 10 months, and they will hold on to things around them as soon as they touch them. If you have a small pet at home at this stage, you may not escape the baby's "magic hand".

Parents may also have encountered it. When the baby 1 is 2 years old, sometimes getting along with other babies, reaching out and touching his face may turn into scratching the other person's face, and the cheek that originally wanted to kiss the other person also turned into biting. In fact, many times the baby wants to be good, but he didn't expect the action to be wrong. That's because the baby's thinking lacks the concept of cause and effect, and their life experience is too little. They don't know what results their actions will bring. Therefore, if there are small pets at home at this stage, they may also be hurt.

Parents may also encounter that when a child is 3 or 4 years old, wearing his mother's sunglasses may say "it's getting dark", which shows that the child's self-centered thinking is at work. I once heard that a child of this age blew the dog's hair with a hair dryer and burned it. His angry mother criticized him, but he said, "I don't feel hot." In fact, the child is not lying, which is what the child really thinks. Therefore, if there are small pets at home at this stage, they are likely to be hurt.

2. Children can understand their parents' "pet guidance"

If it is innocent for children to hurt their pets, parents should always teach their children how to keep pets correctly, what not to do and what nursing work must be done every day. Therefore, children need to understand the "pet guide" of their parents.

However, we know that the younger children are, the worse their communication skills are, the less they understand their parents' words, and their memory is poor. Sometimes they may misunderstand the meaning of their parents' words. Generally speaking, children can only understand some moderately difficult instruction languages of adults when they are 3 or 4 years old; If you want to ensure that your child can accurately understand your parents' Guide to Keeping Pets, then at least wait until your child is 6 or 7 years old.

A father said that his little boy was 3 years old and once had a fever and didn't take medicine. His father asked him emotionally, "Do you want to give it to the cat?" As a result, he really poured all the cool medicine into the cat's mouth ... Finally, the cat had to gastric lavage.

Children already have basic life skills.

Some children have mastered basic life skills in kindergarten. They know how to brush their teeth, dress, wear shoes, wash their faces and so on. But some children can't. Some children don't know how to dress or take care of themselves when they are 6 or 7 years old. Therefore, it is often difficult to let children who have no basic life skills take care of pets.

Only when children know basic life skills and have the ability to take care of themselves can they learn to take care of pets slowly. Suppose you want a 1 year-old baby to bathe the puppy, then the result is probably that the baby and the puppy are playing together in the bathroom and the bathing thing has been forgotten.

Beware of children's "three-minute fever", what should parents do?

Once my mother told me that her little boy was 4 years old and once saw a rabbit in the pet market and was anxious to buy it. I'm also excited to buy it home. I feed carrots, comb my hair, take a bath ... I am diligent. As a result, two days later, the child ignored me and said, "I don't like rabbits", which made my mother stamp her feet with anger. It costs a lot of money to buy rabbits and supporting tools to take care of them.

In fact, it is very common for children to keep pets for three minutes. So how can we prevent parents from trying to cultivate their children's sense of responsibility for keeping pets, but they have no choice but to fail miserably?

Here are three common practices of many parents:

1, try getting a mini pet first.

Silkworm babies, little goldfish, little turtles ... these mini pets are cheap, and they can also test whether the children's sense of responsibility is enough. When a child has a little turtle, "fishing for three days and drying the net for two days", then parents are equivalent to telling the child with facts, "Parents have doubts about taking care of your pet, and you can't buy any dogs and cats." It may also inspire children's sense of responsibility.

2. postpone owning your favorite pet

When a child asks for a pet, parents can ask the child to "wait". You can also explain to your child, "I don't know what your determination is to keep a pet. Why don't you think about it for another month?" Parents can also suggest buying it with their children's pocket money. What if the pocket money is not enough? You can also encourage children to start saving money and wait until they have enough money to buy it.

Perhaps it is waiting, and the children gradually find that they are just on a whim, and their interest in keeping pets is really not that strong, right?

3. Know the details of pet care in advance.

Help children make a list of tasks for keeping pets, such as feeding, adding water to the cat basin, cleaning the cat nest, cleaning the cat towel, toilet training, bathing the cat, taking medicine when sick, etc ... What must be done every day and what is once a week, so as to help children have a specific understanding of caring for pets and let them judge whether they are competent or not.

Generally speaking, children only have the basic ability and mind to take care of pets independently after they are 6 years old. When a child has the ability to take care of pets, he can really benefit from raising small animals. Just like climbing a ladder to pick apples, you have to climb up to pick apples before you have a chance to taste the sweetness of apples. ...