Little Mothers

This little mother can't wait to receive
her old-fashioned baby doll.

      In all the range of human experience, there is nothing to compare with the joy and tenderness of becoming a mother. It is our pleasure to offer you, who are about to participate in Life's most thrilling event, our heartiest congratulations. We wish for you and your doll good health and all the happiness that the intimate relationship of child and doll can bring.

      The Miracle of Motherhood is an experience that has been repeated over and over again, century after century. Yet to each young mother, the adoption of her doll is an ever-new, ever-wonderful event. But remember, despite the fact that it is a new experience to you, the adoption of a doll is a normal affair. Even though he or she looks frail, your doll has been provided by both the printer and/or a parent with a tremendous number of safeguards for it's well-being. And if anything should happen to your paper child, she or he may be easily replaced with a duplicate at the touch of a button.

      So don't let doll care become complicated. Take it easy, take it in stride. Have confidence in your common sense and know that your love for your doll is the most important single contribution to it's welfare. The doll whose Mother tells it in hundreds of intimate little ways that it is well-loved will be healthy and happy, and return to it's mother the affection that is her greatest reward.

      So start your doll off in life with every possible advantage. Face the prospects of Motherhood in a joyous frame of mind; banish any worries or fears that may trouble you.

      Medical advice may be important to you during this adoption and also after you have been playing with your doll for some time. The care of a pretend nurse for your doll is essential to it's healthy development. Listen only to the best qualified doll nurses who give you advice and guidance suited to your doll's individual needs. The suggestions cyberspace nurses make are merely intended to clarify certain routine procedures and give advice on matters which a real-life doctor may not have much of an opinion about.

      Some of the posts in this blog also deal with helping you anticipate the needs of your playtime and your doll's homecoming, whether that doll is a baby, toddler or fashion doll, all advice should only be taken as seriously as you like.

      We will be proud to draw your layette requirements, and to provide fine quality: paper clothing, furniture, food and miscellaneous props for your doll's use in the years ahead.

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• How to Raise a Socially Intelligent Child
• Teaching your child resilience
• Teaching Emotional Intelligence Skills to Children
• Doll questions and answers asked of approximately 800 school children participating in a doll survey over 100 years ago. 

Dramatic Play and Games 

       Much the smallest use of the dramatic instinct is that which is to be made through theatricals. The main purpose here is to show in what a wide range of activities it expresses itself wholesomely in a child's life. The earliest of these is through dramatic play.

      George E. Freeland watched a baby of two and a half years for a whole day and noted that he engaged in fifty-four different imaginative games. This is the time when the child imitates the acts of older people; whatever tiny implements or apparatus he can use please him. Toy furniture for the house, the sand-pile for outdoors, and the doll for both are most useful. "The doll," as Sully tells us, "takes a supreme place in this fancy realm of play." "A good, efficient, able-bodied doll, like the American girl's, says Joseph Lee, "is at home in any situation in life, from princess to kitchen-maid, to which she may be called. And one doll in her time plays many parts. She has to, or lose her job."

• Dr. Louchrisa "Lucy" High - Using Dolls to Teach Special Needs Children 
• In School, Babies Teach Older Children Empathy  
• Internet Kids Losing Empathy and Getting Incarcerated
  

      "The rhymes of 'Mother goose,'" says Alice M. Herts, "were predominatingly dramatic. A great many of them associate words, song, and action. The ordinary printed collections are misleading in this respect. The words, taken alone, are not the thing. Think of printing 'Pease porridge hot' as a separate and independent poem without the dramatic hand-play!"

• Teaching Rhymes and Poems to Young Learners 
• Key principles of teaching very young learners

      The mother may help the development of this expressive instinct even in early childhood. Even a baby ought to be treated as a playmate not as a plaything. There is an old-fashioned game known as "Come and see." The little damsel with her doll, and perhaps "dressed up" in some of her mother's wardrobe, came to call on mother. Her efforts to behave exactly as a lady should were aided and guided by the mother's careful behavior as hostess. It was a training in manners. When the children played visit each other they used all the manners they had. They were practicing useful lessons without knowing it.

• Why Kids Love to Play Dress-up 
• What Will Children Learn Through Dress-up Play?
• Teaching Your Toddler How to Be a Good Playmate