Puppy ClubA family adventurePlay alongside the children and help them connect their choices to caring for your puppy.
Children can take turns with each other or with a grown-up. Listen to each other, and ask “What did you notice?” and “Why does that help?” Use the read-aloud button whenever it helps. Play one little adventure at a time. A child can point, demonstrate or explain. Invite an extra “why?” when it helps; no one needs to grade another player. Stop whenever your family needs a break.
Approximately eight weeks at homecoming, as described in the breeder’s pack. No fixed arrival date or training deadline. All adventures can be played before arrival. A game puppy is a simplified illustration; real dogs vary.
Each child can point, show or tell how to give space, offer calm interaction, notice potty needs, reward good choices, and get adult help. Six badges record game completion, not certification or your real dog’s readiness.
Use these notes to support the children’s learning.
Welcome Puppy describes a prepared puppy area near family life, containing a resting place, water and safe puppy toys. Supervise puppy outside that area. Help the first nights feel reassuring, and follow up on the breeder’s feeding and vaccination handover.
They can point out hazards and help prepare a reassuring puppy space.
Let one child choose or demonstrate, and invite the other to add a clue. You prepare the real space, move hazards and check comfort or potty needs.
Choose a resting spot near family life with a grown-up. One player adds a pretend bed, the other a water bowl and toy. Show how the family can be nearby while puppy rests.
The supplied materials emphasise gentle, supervised interaction and paying attention to puppy’s body language. Give a worried puppy room to move away. The Human Relationship handout describes people as providers of everyday needs. Kinderpuppy practices greeting a puppy who stays sitting.
They can notice rest, moving away and an empty bowl, and show a calm response.
Model pausing and leaving puppy a way out. A sitting hello is a practice idea, not something puppy must perform on arrival.
A grown-up moves a stuffed puppy away. One player notices and pauses; the other shows leaving a way out. Swap roles. Say which clue made you pause.
Offer potty trips after waking, meals and play, and watch for sniffing or circling. Kinderpuppy places the reward immediately after going, while still outside. Stay calm about accidents; a grown-up handles cleaning and supervision. Welcome Puppy includes training food in the daily allowance and describes meals and water in the prepared puppy area.
They can notice a potty clue and show when a reward follows finishing outside.
Lead real potty trips, cleaning, meals and supervision. Children can notice, tell you and act out a pretend routine.
Choose potty and reward words with a grown-up. Move a stuffed puppy outside, pretend it finishes potty, then give a pretend reward before coming indoors. Players swap the noticing and reward jobs.
Leash & Learn teaches getting the behaviour, marking it and rewarding it. Keep practice short, take breaks and use an easier step when needed. Kinderpuppy includes name recognition, sit-follow-sit, doorways, stay-and-release, leave-it and walking. We use a family-chosen “Yes!” as the game’s marker; the handout describes a clicker.
They can show a marked moment, keep a reward promise and tell attention from coming over.
The later Kinderpuppy exercises are labelled adolescent class. These are simplified adult-led family games, without a deadline for an eight-week-old puppy. Choose the actual practice and stop when needed.
Take turns being a pretend puppy and spotting the sitting moment. Say “Yes!” for a sit, then give a pretend reward. Try a funny gentle pose next, with a grown-up helping keep the promise.
Welcome Puppy describes gentle introductions to people, dogs and everyday sounds. Leash & Learn says an introduction should be positive for the dog, never forced, and explains how stressful events can add up. The Human Relationship handout stresses patience and allowing a worried Lagotto a way out. Use these ideas for short, manageable introductions with a grown-up.
They can notice a body clue and choose more distance, a smaller step or a break.
Watch the whole real puppy. Plan short, manageable introductions; watching can count, and encounters do not need collecting.
Choose one pretend visitor, bicycle or household sound with a grown-up. Use a stuffed puppy to practice watching from a comfortable place. Each player notices a clue and plans when a break could help.
Welcome Puppy describes durable toys, checking for pieces that might be swallowed, food rewards from the daily allowance, combing and regular grooming. Leash & Learn includes puzzles at different difficulty levels. Lagotto Information shows coat changes and values each dog as an individual. In this game, children notice and ask for help; adults choose food, equipment and grooming steps.
They can enjoy an easy nose game, notice toy or coat changes and ask for suitable adult help.
You choose food and toys and manage grooming/tools. Before arrival, use drawings and a stuffed puppy. The bone reward is a bone-shaped toy illustration.
Draw three pretend food pieces and place them in easy spots beside a stuffed puppy. Players take turns being nose detectives. A grown-up explains their job choosing real food and a puzzle that’s safe for puppy. Finish with an easy find.
Agree on your family’s words and what they mean. The name invites a look; a recall cue invites puppy to come over. “Yes!” marks a moment and promises a reward. A release word ends the stay game. A grown-up chooses the potty cue and real practice plan. Use the same words and timing, with professional help when needed.
Short lessons and pretend-play activities bring the handouts’ ideas into family practice.
We turn ideas from the handouts into short lessons before each question. The situations and pretend games are family examples, rather than quotations or a complete training programme. A grown-up helps connect them to your real puppy.
Where the handouts describe different approaches, the game uses the patient, small-step and reward exercises in your supplied Leash & Learn. Kinderpuppy provides the name, walking, doorway and stay examples. Its later exercises are labelled adolescent class; our simplified family games are not milestones for an eight-week-old puppy. We do not reproduce pack-ranking or child collar-restraint instructions. “Yes!” is our family’s game marker; Leash & Learn describes a clicker.
Food amounts, supplements, health care, grooming procedures and equipment are covered in the original materials for adults to review. They are not tasks for children to perform or quantities for them to memorise. Read those instructions in the handouts and discuss your puppy’s handover with the breeder.
Puppy-care content uses only these six supplied handouts.