▶ Your Answer :
Some people think that caring for a pet is the best way for a child
to learn responsibility. However, in my opinion, it is inappropriate to let the
pets on children’s hands to teach them responsibilities because to care for
pets is too difficult for children and there is a risk of the pet lose.
To
begin with, having a pet requires a lot of responsibility which is even hard
for grown adults. They need an adequate environment to thrive, careful
attention to living in a healthy condition. For example, dogs need to go for a
walk frequently, and some of them weigh more than twenty kilograms at the age
of three or four. Children cannot handle them if they run out, thus no safety
is guaranteed both care-taking children and other pedestrians during a walk.
On
top of that, it is a careless decision to give children pets because of the
possible risk of the pet lose. The pet lose is the phenomenon that occurs when
the caretaker lost his or her pet, and it sometimes companies depression or
traumatized memories of caring pets. My father experienced the pet lose when he
was a child. He had a white cat and he loved her very much. One day, he dropped
toxic pills in the backyard to kill the mouse which lived near the house. But,
on the next day, my father found his cat died. She swallowed the pill that my
father dropped on the ground. After that event, he fell into deep grief and
decided not to have a pet again.
To
sum up, caring for pets is a difficult task for children and they can be
traumatized about having pets after losing his or her loved ones. In this
regard, I firmly contend that caring for a pet is not a good way for a child to
learn responsibility. |