Why Kids Get Attached To Stuffed Animals?

Kids get attached to most Gormiti their toys, especially 1971 Topps baseball cards stuffed ones. They start considering them as their companion to play with and their friend. Kids most of the time talk to them and share their feelings because they treat them as a living thing. They don't even like to part with them when they go to sleep. You will see that most of the children having stuffed animals like to sleep with it and make them sit beside them or keep them cuddled. The reason behind this can be that the stuffed animals listen to whatever they say and never complain about anything. The children make them sit or stand or do whatever they want them to do.

The popularity of the stuffed animals has risen to a tremendous extent in past few years. Actually stuffed animals have always been popular. And the companies manufacturing this product are making quite a great deal of profit. The industry is flourishing and lots of different creatures are being launched sometime or the other. Everyone likes the furry and cuddly stuffed animals and the kids make them accompany them in each and every game they play. Children like the company of the stuffed animals Batman because they are very much cute and do everything the children have in their imagination.

Sometimes when children insist on having their own pets, parents bring them the stuffed animal and the child takes it close to their heart. With real pets there is a great deal of responsibility to be taken, which is not always possible to manage with everyone. Then when the child starts considering the stuffed toy as their real companion, then parents feel happy just because they could convince their child with a toy. Sometimes this problem when gets deep down the heart, it becomes a problem too. If the child gets too much attached to the stuffed animals then it becomes quite difficult to make him understand that it is just a toy and not a living creature. So the parents need to take care that the child does not take the toy too seriously and the toy remains a toy forever.

Virtual pets are in fashion these days as it is very costly and responsible job to have your own pets. The real pets need a lot of care and regular attention, which becomes difficult most of the time in this hectic lifestyle. It is obvious then that the kids get attached to their virtual pets or most popularly known as the stuffed animals. As a parent it becomes your responsibility to check the level of attachment and keep the toy away for some time in the entire day because it is seen that some children get too attached to it and then they limit their life around it. If this goes on for some time it results in mental problems too. So attachment to non-living creatures or toys should be within limits so that they always remember that it is just a toy and not their real friend.

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Apologize - Yes Or No? (The Golliwog Doll Affair)

We live in sensitive times it seems. And "mistakes" are easily made. The question then is do you apologize or not. Is an 1972 Topps baseball cards a Ouija board of strength, or weakness or neither of them?

Before yesterday I didn't know what a "Golliwog" was. It appears to be ... a character of Munsters model literature created by Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th century, inspired by a blackface minstrel doll which Upton had as a child in America. (1)

Whether it is a coincidence or not, but a British newspaper reported twice an incident where vintage men's magazines little dolls was involved.

The first one, yesterday, is about Carol Thatcher who was sacked by the BBC because she refused to apologize for using the word "golliwog".

A few pages later I noticed a similar story about the queen, a portrait of the doll was printed on the page. The queen on the other hand issued an apology after it was revealed that an official gift shop at her Sandringham estate was selling these dolls.

... the term ... was used both as a reference to the children's toy and as a generic, racist term for blacks.(1) That is the sensitive side of the story.

When I think of Thatcher's' daughter I immediately imagine an "iron daughter." Perhaps this is a prejudgment which it is, and I wonder whether this (iron) characteristic is the cause of her omitting an apology. Is an apology a sign of weakness?

I don't think so. Obviously the Queen doesn't feel weak but she is aware of the times we live in. And currently any insinuation can be read as an (racial) attack. When reading the story of Carol it reads like a racist's remark.

Besides this the question remains should one apologize and when?

The question is about valuing the truth in a technical discussion whether she did or did not mean to offend someone. But, beyond the technical truth lies a more commercial truth where it is not only important how a message is send, but how it is received instead.

In that case the BBC management can only be right in sacking their reporter.

An apology is not a sign of weakness but a necessity in human interaction. In case of doubt (which is a sign of weakness): use it!

(1) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwogg

2009 Hans Bool