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宠物是孩子最好的玩伴

Every kid needs a pet. A pet provides companionship, but did you know that there are other good reasons for letting your child have an animal friend?

每个孩子都需要一只宠物。宠物可以陪伴孩子，但你知道让孩子拥有一个动物朋友的其他好理由吗？

According to parenting.com, pets also help kids with learning, keep kids healthy, and build up family bonds. This is on top of them providing comfort and giving shy children something to talk about with others.

根据parenting.com，宠物还有助于宝宝的学习能力及健康状态，建立家庭纽带，最主要的是能够提供安慰，害羞的孩子可以与其进行交流。

巧爸将救生艇改造成小家

Simon White, a father-of-two from the UK, bought a lifeboat and spent £16,000 converting the lifeboat into a floating home complete with two bedrooms and a kitchen, so he would no longer have to fork out for an overpriced flat.

英国两个孩子的父亲西蒙·怀特购买了一艘救生艇，并花费1.6万英镑（约合人民币15.5万元）将其改造成了一个漂在河上的小家。这个小家有两个卧室、一个厨房，这样他就不用再支付高昂的公寓费了。

White bought the 1980s raft in 2014, which once hung on an oil rig in the North Sea. He then spent six months renovating the lifeboat, installing a plumbing system, complete with running water, electricity and a wood-burning stove to keep themselves warm.

2014年，怀特买下这艘上个世纪80年代的救生艇，它曾被挂在北海的一个石油钻塔上。然后他用6个月的时间对这艘救生艇进行翻修，安装了管道系统，引入了水电，还装了一个烧木柴的火炉供他们取暖。

White was inspired to buy the boat after his father died from cancer, just months after he retired. He realized that he didn’t want to spend his whole life working to try and make ends meet while living in an overpriced flat.

怀特的父亲罹患癌症，仅退休几个月就去世了，这件事促使怀特购买了这艘救生艇。他意识到自己不想一直拼命工作住在一个租金过高的房子里，勉强维持着生活。

He now keeps the lifeboat on the River Avon near Bristol, where he only pays £2,000 per year to moor—a fraction of the £9,500 he paid to rent a flat in Bath.

他现在把救生艇停泊在布里斯托尔附近的埃文河上，每年只需付2000英镑的停泊费用，这比他之前在巴斯租公寓花费9500英镑少了很多。

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