How you teach your kids to treat animals is really important! In our society, animals are one of the only groups with less power than children.
If they learn they can punch down, that’s a lesson that will do a lot more damage as they grow up.
@libbystigaard.bsky.socialGood 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and
