PARENTING ORGANISATIONS
Calm children build a calmer dog.
The children’s jobs with the dog, written so a child can do them and a parent can check them.
Most dog-and-child advice is a list of prohibitions handed to a seven-year-old. It doesn't hold, because it asks a child to assess an animal.
This works the other way. The adult holds the risk. The child holds a routine — a real one, with real responsibility inside real limits — and the dog gets a house that behaves the same way every day.
Inside
- what an adult owns
- children carry routine within limits
- one dog, one voice
- reading the dog — green, yellow, red
- what children can do and must never do
- the truth rule
- when it slips, freedom comes down
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