Get Well Gifts for a Sick or Injured Friend

When a friend or family member is in the hospital, a get-well gift is a nice gesture to show that you care about their health and wellbeing.  Stuffed animals, such as a Gund teddy bear, are traditional get-well gifts, and are still widely appreciated today.  You might also consider gift baskets containing food, candles, or [...]

The Convenience of Online Shopping

Like many American men, I try to avoid going to toy stores as I find it a chaotic place to shop. You can just imagine how glad I am that online stores are created and now considered as an effective and smartest way to shop these days for almost anything. From grocery shopping to purchasing [...]

History of the Teddy Bear

In the world of plush toys, one character reigns supreme: the teddy bear. He’s been around for just over 100 years, and has gone through many transformations and adjustments in his time, but he still claims the stuffed animal throne.
The teddy bear came into being in 1902 when President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a [...]

Discovering the Wild World of Animal Life

Ecosystems make for a fascinating study, and few things are more enthralling to a child than the animal kingdom. Whether their interest is piqued by a Disney movie or a tidbit of information they picked up in science class, most children go through a phase where they have a favorite animal. Before your kid’s next [...]

Hosting a Stuffed Animal Party

My daughter just turned 5 years old, and now that she’s in kindergarten we decided to hold a party. She invited all of her friends from school and a few from daycare. My husband and I decided to make it a bring-your-own-stuffed-animal party, knowing that it’s hard for some kids to leave their parents at [...]

A Newfound Soft Spot for Raccoons

I had always harbored preconceived notions about raccoons. To me, they were nothing more than scavengers who terrorized raided my birdfeeders at night and bullied the household pets if we accidentally left them outside. Having seen them scrounging for meals in dumpsters and trash bins, I believed raccoons were a public health hazard. All of [...]

Keeping Teddy Clean and Fresh

You can try to prevent it from happening all you want, but it’s just inevitable. Kids are some of the most efficient mess-makers alive, and they are especially adept at covering their stuffed animals with layers of filth. Whether it’s food particles or bits of dirt from being dragged around outside, teddy bears are often [...]

Taking the Cat on Vacation

My family and I just returned from a two-week vacation in Florida, and we couldn’t be more refreshed and invigorated. It’s funny to think that we almost called the whole thing off because of a cat. My 4-year-old daughter has a special attachment to Fuzzy, the tabby cat we got right around the time our [...]