Two Teddy Bears Help Owners, Young and Old, Survive Through Traumatic Times
Strange how a teddy bear can give a child the support he needs to get through the most trying of times; and the bears continue to live with that child even, when he grows to adulthood! Indeed, some teddy bears live very long lives.
And they continue, after at least two hundred years, to appear in movies, books, songs, and bakeries.
I just watched an Internet Video about two English men, one who lived through the bombing of England during World War II, feeling that his bear was with him to cuddle with, to pretend with, and to be protected by.
He was an only child and his bear was like a sibling to him.
During the recent rampant fires in Southern California, he heard that another English man had lost his home and almost everything inside, except his bear that had miraculously survived in tact.
The first man who was so touched, has offered to do anything he could to help the victim of the fires.
The two bears, shown in the video obviously were made by the same factory, as they looked like twins, vintage but in good shape, nevertheless.
I am sure that these men will meet soon and bring their teddy bears with them.
Stuffed toys can do miraculous things for people.
Often they become best friends for little kids; sometimes kids need to have scores of stuffed animals to play with, to make into their own unique families.
One little boy, I met, had an army of stuffed animals, which he used to arrange around his room for hours at a time.
That was how he gave himself the attention he needed! I had a friend a while ago who organized a project, where she gathered stuffed animals from stores and took them into senior-living facilities.
Other people had started bringing their pet dogs into the homes to cheer up the elderly; these dogs are specifically trained to interact gently with older people.
At one facility, a woman would not talk to any one and remained mute, no matter what occurred.
She wouldn't even participate with the trained pet-visitors.
Then my friend gave her a stuffed animal.
At first she just cuddled it, slowly grew to talk to it, started speaking to the pets and ultimately to the other people at the home.
One can just imagine the feelings that returned to her from just cuddling her stuffed animal that allowed her to start communicating again.
Indeed, stuffed animals can sometimes possess the power to a job which people can't.
They can provide a support system and become powerful healers.
And they continue, after at least two hundred years, to appear in movies, books, songs, and bakeries.
I just watched an Internet Video about two English men, one who lived through the bombing of England during World War II, feeling that his bear was with him to cuddle with, to pretend with, and to be protected by.
He was an only child and his bear was like a sibling to him.
During the recent rampant fires in Southern California, he heard that another English man had lost his home and almost everything inside, except his bear that had miraculously survived in tact.
The first man who was so touched, has offered to do anything he could to help the victim of the fires.
The two bears, shown in the video obviously were made by the same factory, as they looked like twins, vintage but in good shape, nevertheless.
I am sure that these men will meet soon and bring their teddy bears with them.
Stuffed toys can do miraculous things for people.
Often they become best friends for little kids; sometimes kids need to have scores of stuffed animals to play with, to make into their own unique families.
One little boy, I met, had an army of stuffed animals, which he used to arrange around his room for hours at a time.
That was how he gave himself the attention he needed! I had a friend a while ago who organized a project, where she gathered stuffed animals from stores and took them into senior-living facilities.
Other people had started bringing their pet dogs into the homes to cheer up the elderly; these dogs are specifically trained to interact gently with older people.
At one facility, a woman would not talk to any one and remained mute, no matter what occurred.
She wouldn't even participate with the trained pet-visitors.
Then my friend gave her a stuffed animal.
At first she just cuddled it, slowly grew to talk to it, started speaking to the pets and ultimately to the other people at the home.
One can just imagine the feelings that returned to her from just cuddling her stuffed animal that allowed her to start communicating again.
Indeed, stuffed animals can sometimes possess the power to a job which people can't.
They can provide a support system and become powerful healers.
