Adolescents Growing Up With a Family Dog: Maximizing Resilience in Adulthood
Teenager Life: Living in The Fast Lane To consider what having a dog means to a teenager, we have to try to identify with where the teenager is at in this normally complex time of development. In 2019, The New York Times interviewed 17 year old, Sadie Radinsky about what it was like to have a family dog to relate too. She mostly listed ways she cared for and connected with her current dog, but when asked what benefit she gets from having a dog, Sadie mentioned having a dog helps her stop - and live for the present. Not something many teenagers are conscious of, in their opinions. "We're hardly ever present... We're always wishing we had done better on that Spanish test last week." Sadie Radinskey, New York Times, 2019. Adolescents: Finding and Proving Their Identity A study by R. Purewall, R. Christely, K. Kordas, C. Joinson, K. Meints, N. Gee, C. Westgrath. (2017) identified building positive relationships as crucial during adolescent development. Many studies foc...