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Safety For Children
If one of your most pressing issues as a parent is safety for children, you are not alone. There are more and more stories on the news that make it seem as if no child is safe anywhere. Though you might think that some parents go overboard when they are protecting their children, I happen to be of the mind that it is much better to be paranoid than to be too lax. Your children need you to protect them because they are not yet able to protect themselves. They need you to look out for them.
Safety for children begins at home. I know that I think about it a lot, but I am never quite sure what to say. I talk to my daughter about strangers all the time, but she cannot quite understand what I am saying. She thinks that if someone tells her their name that they are no longer a stranger. This can be very dangerous, and is a common problem when dealing with safety for children. Until she really gets what a stranger is and what they are capable of, she is glued to my side. The problem with that is...
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Steiff Stuffed Animals
Everyone had a favorite stuffed toy as a child and fond nostalgia makes some adults become collectors, especially in the case of Steiff stuffed animals. The original animals can demand high prices at auctions and fairs these days, particularly the bears. The story begins in the German town of Giengen an der Brenz in 1880. A wheelchair bound seamstress called Margarete Steiff started a hobby and made toy animals from her own designs. They were mostly of dogs, cats, pigs and elephants.
The company, as we know it today, began when Margarete's nephew Richard Steiff invented the first bear with jointed limbs in 1902. The bear quickly became popular in the United States and then, across the world, winning the first prize at the World Exhibition in St.Louis in 1904. It became known as a teddy bear, as in honour of President Teddy Roosevelt. The company is known for its high quality Steiff stuffed animals, which are still made in the town of Giengen. Giengen is a mecca for admirers of the products as there is an Adventure Museum as well as the factory. The museum tells the history of the products and a gift shop...
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