Role play with the child: I don't like it, should I still? (Symbol image)
Photo: Image taken by Mayte Torres / Getty ImagesAt the risk of making me unpopular, make the following confession: I like people better than animals. Since I was allowed to take care of my friend's rabbit as a primary school student during the summer holidays, which suddenly lay dead in the enclosure under my care, I have avoided contact with pets in the interests of everyone.
Our son will grow up without a hamster, budgie or cat. So far he doesn't seem to suffer from it. Maybe because he speaks to dogs every day. He's a big Paw Patrol fan. And demands a lot from me.
Anna Clauß , 38, is the mother of a five-year-old son. She works full time and knows how to raise children to be happy despite being absent and constantly short of time. Or at least successfully persuade it.
"Paw Patrol", in this country perhaps translated as "paw patrol", is a Canadian television series for children in which a gang of puppies makes the ideal world at a place called "Adventure Bay" even more healed. Children who have only seen one of these ten-minute episodes immediately fall into a relationship of dependency in early childhood that is worth considering: suddenly they beg several times a day for more "Popotrol" and excitedly point in the supermarket to everything that the sugar-sweet hero dogs are smiling at . From A for the inflatable "Paw Patrol" armchair to Z for the "Paw Patrol" headquarters, you can buy any crap that merchandise departments come up with for more than 100 euros.
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