Wide context

Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/It seems that the only good reason to have a dog for a child is to let them play together. Unfortunately that situation is also hopeless since the ways children and dogs play are completely different. Dogs by playing learn how to fight, latter they play to let the steam off and children learn to socialise. In the end the dog is almost socialised after being ridden in a pram (or in other ways of treating it as a teddy bear) and the child sometimes minorly bitten or scratched. Of course you can threw sticks for a dog but first you must teach it to fetch them and that is not a job for a child. Finally the whole situation strongly resembles two children taking care of each other, in case of a young dog (or puppy) or child nursing an adult in case of an older dog. And that is not what the parents wanted to achieve.