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Using A Dog To Encourage Your Child To Read

Dogs promote page turning for young readers. Reading in the presence of a pooch may be the page-turning motivation young children need, suggests a researcher. A new study examines the behavior of 17 children from Grades 1 to 3 while reading with and without a dog. Source 4g.

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Okay, now this is pretty awesome.

Where honestly, I wish that they would have thought of this sort of thing when I was in school. I mean, I was a voracious reader in high school, but it took quite a bit of effort to get me too that point. Where in elementary school, it was a challenge getting me to read a book by myself and especially out loud.

Admittedly, I also always wanted a dog growing up. So this could have been a good excuse for such, with the mental issues I had to work with counting Asperger's Syndrome. A therapy dog could have perhaps helped me quite a bit, whether it be in simply helping me to focus and pay attention, or even minimize or better handle stresses.

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This is an interesting study. I think that having a dog in many ways help a child with school and mentally.