托福大作文-生活习惯类范文（八）

题目： Keping pets is good for children or not ?
范文：
　　The issue whether keeping pets could benefit children might trigger intense debate among individuals. Some might argue that pets could bring both intangible and tangible advantages to children, citing the reason that pets might help to explore the meaning of love and responsibility. However, from my perspective, I would disagree with their statement.
　　First, keeping pets could incur some health problems, because pets are often unhygienic due to the rather dirty environment where they were born or raised up, which might lead to the result that pets such as kittens or puppies would carry parasites and potential virus which threaten the health of children. Cat hairs might float in the air while fleas might originate from puppy heads. Even if the pets are born in hygienic or professional clinics, their instinct nature of playing wild would drive them and the homes to be unclean and insanitary which greatly harm the healthy growing of children.
　　Furthermore, pets might interrupt the studies of children, considering the fact that their lively character matches the natural demanding for fun of the children. Running and hiding around the corners in the house, purring and barking for a touch of care, dogs and cats would easily draw the attention from their little owners and disrupt their focus on a specific and difficult mathematical question or a concentration on the development of a composition idea. To apply the above point further, in a long run, children accompanying their pets would experience a decline in their academic performance and ruin the prospect of their future.
　　Admittedly, children do learn the meaning of caring and responsibility from their pets due to the fact that they have to take time everyday to handle the food, water and shelter for their beloved ones. And they could also acquire seemly genuine enjoyment and happiness from playing with their pets. But those enjoyment could be attained from other safer and simpler ways, specifically games or arts, other than pets. The mental benefits such as the sense of responsibility and caring could be narrowed and seminary because the emotion of animals can not be as difficult and sensitive as that of humans. Children might be depressed and desperate when they find they don’t pay off as they give. The world doe snot operate as children do with their pets.
    In conclusion, keeping pets would not bring as many benefits as we think to children. Instead ,it often ends up doing more harms to them. To ensure the healthy development of children, we must not let them have their pets.