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Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders

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Re: Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders

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Wow, that's a cynical take if I've seen one.

Perhaps, but the parent post was right to notice that headline wording choice has an effect on emotion, and can be manipulative. Human interest stories aren't always chosen and conveyed with the interest of the reader or the subject in mind.

Given that his role as a father was central to him creating the first bear, what word should they have used that would have conveyed the same amount of information? Are we really going to pretend that "Man makes toys" is a superior informational choice to "Dad makes teddies?"

Re: Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders

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As you say, kids will instinctively do this, she pretend played that a car is herself and another is you. They don't need adults to prescribe what they should pretend play. They'll play with rocks and twigs and anything else and have fun. These toys-that-make-feelgood-news are not about kids but adults playing politics (that they are compassionate unlike the other tribe).

> These toys-that-make-feelgood-news are not about kids but adults playing politics (that they are compassionate unlike the other tribe). Notwithstanding the tone of the article being "feel-good" I really don't know how you make the jump you made here - lots of research supports the idea that representation matters. Sure kids will happily play with rocks and cardboard tubes, but if they are playing with dolls they wi…

I agree, and what really drove it home for me years ago was watching this video of a kid's reaction to receiving a doll like her:

https://youtu.be/yj5U-tr-E24

Who can watch that and say rocks and sticks would be just as good?

Re: Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders

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Yeah, my kid also got a teddy with the same scar as his from the hospital. It's a nice idea, but my kid didn't really care about it. (I don't know why, he had other stuffed animals that he really liked, but apparently the scar was not a big deal to him)

It was too many years ago, and I was too young for me to remember if it helped me deal better or not. But if I'm still holding on to it, it must mean something!

If not to you, then at least to your parents

Re: Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders

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Why is "Man makes toy bears" superior? It doesn't sound any more objective.

Exactly, it should simply state “Homo Sapiens specimen manufactures inanimate objects”

Today in the news: "Bag of meat makes bag of cotton"
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