"I am amazed at pigheadedness of some people for insisting on a habit that damages thousands and thousands of children's lives"
I'm assuming you extend this hatred to all:
- smokers
- pregnant women who drink
- drug users
- people who own guns
- drink drivers
- drivers who speed
- drivers who cut cut up other cars
- parents who let their kids crawl all over the cars without seatbelts on
- etc
I'm also assuming you have NEVER driven your car one kilometer over the speed limit or taken your child within 10 feet of a smoker.
Don't you think you're over-reacting just a little bit? Parents who don't introduce their children to different animals and teach them how to behave around them are putting them at risk. It's highly unlikely that anybody will go through life without encountering a dog and how will the child react then? Probably run squealing which will excite the dog and think they're playing and that's when accidents happen.
We take dogs into schools on a regular basis to make sure that children learn about dogs and how to inteact with them safely. The younger the children the better as they haven't had years of people telling them how horrible dogs are and how scary they are. The kids are always timid at first but by the end of a session they're stroking the dogs and playing with them.
The only danger is to the dogs - we had one over-excited 5 year old child that bit the dog!!
"I am amazed at pigheadedness of some people for insisting on a habit that damages thousands and thousands of children's lives"
I'm assuming you extend this hatred to all:
- smokers
- pregnant women who drink
- drug users
- people who own guns
- drink drivers
- drivers who speed
- drivers who cut cut up other cars
- parents who let their kids crawl all over the cars without seatbelts on
- etc
I'm also assuming you have NEVER driven your car one kilometer over the speed limit or taken your child within 10 feet of a smoker.
Don't you think you're over-reacting just a little bit? Parents who don't introduce their children to different animals and teach them how to behave around them are putting them at risk. It's highly unlikely that anybody will go through life without encountering a dog and how will the child react then? Probably run squealing which will excite the dog and think they're playing and that's when accidents happen.
We take dogs into schools on a regular basis to make sure that children learn about dogs and how to inteact with them safely. The younger the children the better as they haven't had years of people telling them how horrible dogs are and how scary they are. The kids are always timid at first but by the end of a session they're stroking the dogs and playing with them.
The only danger is to the dogs - we had one over-excited 5 year old child that bit the dog!!
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