Explaining why children love learning about animals 18 Articles

by Cynthia Harlan

Watch a toddler chase a puppy or kitten around and you can see how much fun that the child has from this little game of catch me if you can. Little ones just love animals. If you look at it from the toddler's point of vi...read more

by Randa Morris

When my son Joshua (now 18) was 3, he fell in love with birds. Every kind of bird, from penguin, to flamingo, owl to eagle, it didn't seem to matter. Whenever I took him out shopping, if he saw a figure of a bird, whether ...read more

by Linda Ann Nickerson

Kids love animals. Especially real, live creatures. Up close and personal. "Look what I caught, Mom!" Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor? Zip through the zoo, and you'll see what I mean. Just glance at the giraf...read more

by Sue Tobin

Children and animals just go together. Most children like to learn about animals and if they have animals as pets, they can also learn alot from them. We all love soft fluffy animals with appealing eyes and children are n...read more

by Hazel Gawthorpe

Children love to learn about new things every day. Especially animals. We bought our eldest son, 2 baby guinea pigs when he was 20 months old, as we had just had another baby ourselves. It has been lovely watching him lear...read more

by Angie N.

One of my favorite memories when I was younger revolved around visiting our local pet store, which had a display of puppies in the storefront window. I was around five or six years old & I simply could not contain my enth...read more

by Alisa Mantall

Animal lovers isn't something we grow into, it is something installed in us as children. Although maybe frightened by a big dog or afraid of cows, children often associate animals with fond memories. Recollections of the z...read more

by Teresa Meakin

When i was young i always loved going to the zoo or to the safari park, i though it was amazing seeing all the different kinds of animals. Animals to children are so exciting they want to know what each animal is, what the...read more

by Jen Bishop

Children love learning about animals because it is something that they are able to see and touch. Face it, how many elementary school students do you know who have not gone on a field trip to the zoo. And how many have ...read more

by Laura Leigh Fields

An animal is a very common learning tool for young children. Animals seem intriguing because they are like us but they are different. For a child this is something fun and exciting. It is something appealing. Young childre...read more

by Sangay Glass

When a child is born it's most likely that their first toy will come in the form of a soft downy stuffed animal. Perhaps it's our unconscious way of helping our children distinguish the human species from the animal kingdo...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

Children love animals from the first things they learn or see about them, because their curiosity is attracted by their diversity from humans and by the great differences among them. I know that children, at first, learn t...read more

by K Bert

EVERY CHILD LOVES PUPPIES AND KITTENS! Why is that? Why does a child enjoy spending time and learning about different things about animals? I think there is several reasons. Children enjoy interacting and playing. And wh...read more

by Jon Coe

When I was a child there were three cats and a dog. I used to feed the food, that I didn't want, to the dog. In exchange, the dog took the heat, for the food that I did like to eat. When my Father asked what happened to th...read more

by Blog8WithJ

In the world of children, everything is discovery. They want to discover the truth about all living things. Their parents nurtured them to love, to learn, to live and be friendly to all the things around them. Through this...read more

by Sande Waybill

As members of the human species, you may estimate that children would prefer to learn about their own kind, without taking an interest in alternative creatures. However, they have not yet learned to distinguish between hum...read more