Small Adventurers

I think toy doctors are so nice actually like i remember being a little heartbroken kid when one of my beloved stuffed animals got old and torn up and my mom just threw him out. And i know what it would have meant to me, to have someone lovingly stitch him back up instead so i could love him just a little longer. And I'm really glad there are little kids out there who get to see pictures of their stuffed animals and dolls with little fake hospital beds and casts as they "rest & heal" before returning to them good as new. Like what a sweet thing to do with your life.

It’s also so good for normalising the idea of illness, hospitals and recovery not being bad or scary places, even if sometimes they’re not very nice, because the people there are doing kind things to make you better so you can go back home. No one knows which kids are going to end up dealing with major traumatic illnesses or injuries, and having a safe framework for the idea of a hospital, a safe, painless, vicarious hospital experience is such valuable preparation

The feeling of being in a car at night 🚙 and seeing all the lights as you drive by, holding a stuffed toy in your arms, watching the rain 🌧️ hit the window, drawing faces on the foggy window, coloring in the backseat, playing I spy throughout the drive, driving your toy car below the window back and forth, reading a book when it’s lighter out then squinting once it gets darker, listening to a cd