Article: Canine MD: Eight Ways A Dog Improves Your Child?s Well-being
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Canine MD: Eight Ways A Dog Improves Your Child?s Well-being
Some of our favorite childhood memories involve dogs. But did you know that warm feeling is based in good science? Here are eight ways a dog improves your child's health and well-being.
Dogs enhance your child's cognitive and social development. Family ownership of a dog or other pet increases your child's ability to use his whole brain. Children with pets at home also score significantly higher on empathy and pro-social scales than children without pets.
Dogs boost your child's self-esteem. A study of 394 university students revealed that those who had dogs or cats as childhood pets were more self-confident than those who had not.
Dogs reduce your child's stress. One study concluded that children who had a dog present during their physical exam...
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