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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

Pick a pet that fits your family’s lifestyle – Look at the purpose the pet will serve in your family. If a child has ADD or ADHD, I recommend starting with a calm dog to help give them an example of what calm can be. Do you and your kids spend more time indoors or outside?

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. These are good examples of Harper’s art and text. Both appear almost childishly simple on the surface, and reveal layers of surprising information on repeated viewings and readings.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

10,000 Birds

But off the top of my head, I cannot think of any examples of non-exploratory people who are open to the unexpected at home. Exploratory species, on the other hand, have lifestyles where information gathering could be useful, e.g. those living in relatively complex and changeable versus constant habitats. Makes sense really.

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