Your host Emma is joined by Ava and Oliver for a meaningful conversation about children, pets, responsibility, and compassion. This episode explores how kids around the world learn to care for animals — and how those early lessons can shape the kind of pet parents, helpers, and animal lovers they become.

The conversation begins in a Finnish preschool, where children learn empathy through gentle care for a classroom rabbit named Tähti. Instead of only learning from worksheets, the children practice kindness through brushing, feeding, watching body language, and noticing when an animal needs calm, space, or comfort. These simple routines teach patience, emotional awareness, and respect for living beings. 🐰💛

Then Emma, Ava, and Oliver bring the discuss ...