There’s not much more of a classic plaything than a stuffed animal. There’s probably not a child’s room on Earth that hasn’t held at least one plushie iteration of some sort of fauna.
So lucrative are these playthings that Warren Buffett bought the parent company of Squishmallows, an American purveyor of rotund stuffed animals ... sought succour in cute playthings.
This fall we got new carpeting. While packing our house we found dozens of items from our kids' childhood — clothes, stuffed animals, cuddle blankets — shoved into closets and under beds.
When stuffed animals react to being stroked, the person stroking them is happy and builds up an emotional relationship with the stuffed animal, at least for a short time. The Tobot company wants ...
"Those essential items are, of course, essential, but what children really miss is that stuffed animal, that favorite toy." Hymel knows because she's lived it. In 2005, she lost her own home to ...