When you watch a child grow, you begin to notice a rhythm in the way they latch on to things. One week, their heart belongs to a stuffed animal, the next week it might be a toy car, and before long something else entirely takes over their imagination. My daughter has been teaching me this… Continue reading The Magic of a Child’s Ever-Changing Favorites
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The Growing World of Stuffed Friends: Watching My Daughter Bond with Her Toys
There’s a kind of quiet magic in watching a child form attachments. Not just to people, but to the things around them—objects that somehow become more than just what they are. For my two-year-old daughter, this magic started with a small and soft gray stuffed dinosaur. We called it Baby Dino. To her, it wasn’t… Continue reading The Growing World of Stuffed Friends: Watching My Daughter Bond with Her Toys
