Children who care for a pet learn something fundamental: the importance of love and respect for animals. This will have very positive results in the social sphere of the child, as a child who learns to take care of an animal, treat it with love and patience, it could serve in the future to relate to his or her environment in a safer, more respectful and loving way with other people. In other words, child will be a person more inclined to develop not only cognitive intelligence, but also emotional intelligence.
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