The Big Side Of Being Little

Do you feel sad or scared sometimes, Little One? Do you need to take a breath but can’t catch it? Mamas here to help, small soul.

💛 Calm Harm is an app that helps distract from the urge to self harm by giving you more positive outlets for that feeling. You may choose your own calming color scheme and your activities!

💛 Breathe, Think & Do is an app created by Sesame Street that can help any little tot who feels angry, scared, anxious or anything in between. It helps you center yourself and feel okay again while enabling you to create a plan to work things out, in this app you will help the monster figure out his problems while helping yourself learn healthy ways to deal with these feelings!

💛 Breathe Kids is mamas favorite app for little ones who’ve experienced not so good things. Whether you are suffering from eating issues, body memories & trauma, to mental illness as a whole this app is sure to help. You may choose what you’re feeling and you will receive a story game designed to help calm you.

If you still live with your family, you have roommates or another situation where you live with people who don’t know aboit your regression, being little is hard! Especially trying to keep your items a secret! So what can you do? Well, here is “Classy’s Guide to Hiding Stuff.” Enjoy!

1. Switch Places With A Potential Snooper

When you walk into your bedroom, look around. Where would you look first if you were looking for something hidden? Don’t hide things in any of those places.

2. Dedicated Drawers/Shelves

If you have quite a few little things, have a dedicated drawer or shelf for it! Empty out a spot in a cupboard or closet, or a shelf on your bookshelf and hide things there! You may be thinking, “But Classy, all someone would half to do is look at the shelf or open the drawer or cupboard!” Yes, this is true. This is where we take from the chameleon and camouflage it. For shelves, put books in front of it! Not a lot of people will go rooting through your books, so your items should be safe and sound. As for cupboards and drawers this is a bit trickier, but for drawers you could put maybe a few articles of clothing over it, and for a cupboard you could use a few big items to put in front of it!

3. Little Bags!

I love little bags! You can get a backpack or a tote bag or just a bag of your choice and use it to store your little things in. Its great for if you’re on the go a lot, and you can decorate it as you please! Most people wouldn’t even question a Hello Kitty or Paw Patrol bag, but if you live with nosy people a regular bag may be best for you.

4. Have things out in the open!

By this I do not mean leave your pacis or sippies everywhere. But things like stuffies are normal to have as an adult! I have a large stuffie drawer in my room, and a bunch om my bed and on shelves! Nobody questions it, and if they do say you like collecting them because they’re cute. Also, having cute childish decorations isn’t something people would really think twice about. They’d just think you have a nice childish taste.

5. Secret Agent

Put items in places that have nothing to do with them! Put a paci in a Ziploc bag and put it in your shirt drawer! Fold up a onesie and put it in a blanket box! Places where nodody would really look, and even if they did, probably wouldn’t notice one small thing st the bottom.

6. Just get creative!

Nobody knows your home better than you do! Put things wherever you’ll think they’ll be safe and accessible to you!

Sfw

https://www.cutesykink.co.uk

https://www.spoiledbrat.co.uk

https://spreepicky.com

https://www.himifashion.com

https://kawaiimachine.com/#

https://littlespaceplace.com

https://www.etsy.com/shop/IttyBittyLittles?ref=s2-header-shopname

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TotzToybox?ref=s2-header-shopname

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Dlilkitten?ref=s2-header-shopname

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleRedFaerie/items

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TomTomCreations/items

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https://littleprincesscustoms.tumblr.com/

https://littlesinlace.tumblr.com/

https://smolbeanboutique.tumblr.com/

https://onesiesdownunder.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BerriCuteCrafts

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ItsAllFunAndGlitter

https://babyspaces.tumblr.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleABShop

https://dlilkittenzboutique.tumblr.com/

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Nsfw

http://www.littlegear.me

https://kittensplaypen.net

https://ddlgplayground.com

https://littlestgiftshop.com

Here’s another list of great YouTube channels for everyone!

Educational:

Crash course kids

Peekaboo kidz

Super simple tv

Story bots

All things animal tv

Wild kratts

Songs:

Pinkfong!

Super simple songs- kids songs

The singing walrus

Fun Tv:

Pocoyo

Peep and the big wide world

Timmy time show

Mother goose club

PBS kids

Plush time wins

ElliV Toys

Story time:

Shannon Linville- stories, poetry, and bible verses

Story time with miss yumi

Story time anytime

Kids story time- read by puppets and stuffies

Art:

Art for kids hub

Mary doodles: how to art

How to draw and paint channel

The art geek

Older kids:

Ted-ed

National Geographic kids

Wiz kid science

Minute physics

Cool school

Jangbricks- Lego

Grav3yardgirl- bunny does fun videos of toys, makeup tutorials, and fun product testing

Video gaming:

Cohh carnage- unlike the name a very safe family friendly video game streamer!

Theno1alex- pg13 roughly but super fun

Iateyourpie- Mario games

Ihascupquake- Minecraft

Thediamondminecart- Minecraft

Stampylonghead- Minecraft with an English cat

I’m going to start making lists of things involving little and caregiver topics. This one is all about apps for phones and tablets. These range from games to self care to videos to books. Please let me know if these apps contain ANY adult themes or don’t work any longer. These should all be sfw and last time they were used they were.

All Age Games:

Toca boca brand apps

Jobi jobi games

Sago mini brand apps

Robot maker

Drawnimal

Rainy days

Fisher price

Charlie and Lola my little town

Bamba burger

Julius jr playhouse

Hey duggee: the sandcastle badge

Ben and holly: elf and fairy party

World of peppa pig

Pj masks: time to be a hero

Chuggington traintastic adventure

Lego duplo town

Care bear rainbow playtime

Miffys world

Beat bugs

Big kid games:

Little galaxy family

Lili

Godus

The trail

Animal crossing pocket

Stampede

My little pony

Big fish games

Snapimals

Minion rush

Out of water

Clumsy ninja

Recolor

Num noms: flavor fusion

Lego juniors

Hygiene and self care:

Pepi bath

Chore monster

Monster messenger

Viridi

Tep

Pepi doctor

Playmobile Children’s hospital

Brush up: tooth brush training

Headspace meditation

Stop breathe and think kids

Reading apps and education:

Dandelion

Daisy chain

Goodnight moon interactive book

Some story bots

Aniscience

My caterpillar

Goodnight mo

Leela kids podcasts

Nick jr books

Bedtime stories read and tell

Disney story central

Dr. Seuss books

Bible app for kids (Christian)

We’re little Muslims interactive book

Video:

Noggin preschool

Pbs kids video

Sesame Street

Hopster: learn and watch kids tv

Boomerang best cartoons

Disney junior

Brain pop

For this tutorial I’m using a thrift store rapunzel doll. She’s a Disney toddler doll and in fair condition. It was a good find since majority of the time the dolls are naked. Even though her dress has a rip and I don’t care for it having a doll with clothes is nice until I can get a new dress!

She is really clean too so I won’t be showing how to clean skin today! We will only be working on the hair! Her hair is in rough shape. First thing we will do is wash with shampoo and conditioner. While the conditioner is in using a wide tooth comb carfully in section start to detangle her hair. This may take a bit. I like to lay a towel down and watch a movie. I turned on Tangled for the job!

Once you have worked out all the major tangles and can mostly run fingers through them rinse the hair all out and pat dry. If your doll is in good condition then you usually can stop here and let them dry. If your doll needs more help then we can continue on with a few more steps. This is Rapunzel after the brushing.

She’s looking much better but as you can see she has some damage still to work on. Now doll hair is plastic so there’s no restoring it to its original form unfortunately but with a little love we can get her looking pretty good. The next step I did after brushing her hair all out was to rub coconut oil through her hair. This helps restore some hydration and take the frizz from damaged doll hair. After letter that soak in she was looking a bit better. I trimmed her ends up to help manage the extremely damaged areas. Remember this is just a trim not a hair cut!

See those extremely damaged ends! Poor girl needed a trim! Once the trim was done I brushed her back out and put a little more oil on her and let her sit for a while to rest.

She was looking better but still had some problem areas. One last step we can do to try and help us a boiled water bath. This helps a lot of dolls! I boiled a bowl of water in the microwave. Be very careful or ask for help to remove the bowl and do this step so you don’t get burned. Then I dunked her in for 10 sec intervals. The hot water smooths out frizz. It works really well a lot of the time.

I carefully dried her off and brushed her over the sink to help smooth the hair out. Now she looks a hundred times better but there is still parts that are damaged that can’t be fixed. You can leave these parts as is because she deserves to be loved even with her hair damaged, you can braid it which I love to do with dolls that can’t be fixed, you can replace the hair, or you can cut it. Just remember if you cut it the hair will not grow back. For now I’m leaving her as is and might braid it with flowers to look like when she went to the Festival of Lights!

This is an example of damaged hair next to healthy hair so you can see how hard it is to repair. I still love her and doing these steps has repaired and cleaned a lot of dolls that were otherwise abandoned and neglected in thrift store or yard sales. Taking care of second hand dolls not only saves you a lot of money (I got rapunzel for a $1!) but it gives love to a new doll. In the end she turned out pretty good!

~update~

I was able to look up a few pictures of rapunzel at the Festival of Lights and braid her hair to look similar! I’m hoping to find a few flowers to add later to make it look even more similar! Braids aren’t so bad after all!

◇ Tell them to use both hands when drinking or holding something

◇ Randomly bring them their paci (if applicable)

◇ Tie their shoes for them

◇ Choose what they wear for the day

◇ Help them get something if they’re too short

◇ Buckle their seat belt

◇ Play with their stuffies and toys with them

◇ Take them to the park to play

◇ Tell them to hold your hand when crossing the street

◇ Take them on a little themed date

◇ Leave little love notes everywhere

◇ Enforce rules and punishments

◇ Give them routines

◇ Help them set up a chore chart?

◇ Talk to them as you would someone their little age (treat them like their little age)

◇ Fill their sippy for them (if applicable)

◇ Make/cut their food for them (with the inclusion of little dishes!)

◇ Sit them in your lap

◇ Get them (un)dressed (if applicable)

◇ Wash them in a bubble bath

◇ Cuddles!

◇ Be silly with them

◇ Pick them up (if applicable)

◇ Call them cute pet/nicknames

◇ Wipe their mouth if they get messy with their food

◇ Read them bedtime stories

◇ Talk in that voice that makes them smile

◇ Suggest a little movie

◇ Put a crazy straw in their drink

◇ Order for them

◇ Don’t let them pay

◇ HELP them make a hard choice (encourage them)

◇ Let them fall asleep on you

◇ Tell them they need a nap if they’re bratty

◇ Ask them to help you with things

◇ Color with them

◇ Take them outside to play

◇ Tell them when they’re doing good

◇ Ask them what color something is

◇ Remind/ask them if they need to go potty

◇ Ask them to count something

◇ Tell them to read you something

◇ Do basic math with things

◇ Interact with their stuffies

◇ Guide them

◇ Tell them they make you proud

◇ Take care of them

◇ Remind them to take their meds (if applicable)

◇ Remember their stuffies names’

◇ Tuck them in (after that bedtime story…)

◇ Ask them if there is anything they need to remember to do

◇ Kiss their forehead or cheeks

◇ Check for monsters

◇ Play pretend with them

◇ Make sure they have something to cuddle if they feel off

◇ Invite them to a surprise tea party

◇ Play games with them (tag, hide and seek, board games, ect..)

◇ Do arts and crafts with them

◇ Blanket. Forts.

◇ Hold them when they’re sad

◇ Wipe their tears

◇ Exaggerate your love on the small gifts they give you

◇ Scoop them up prince(ss)style!

◇ Watch cartoons with them

◇ Make a little themed meal

◇ Have them complete chores

◇ Remind them to wash their hands before a meal

◇ Rub their tummy when it hurts

◇ Start a pillow fight (be gentle though…)

◇ Ask them silly questions

◇ Make up a fairytale and have them add along

◇ Take them somewhere they can dress little

◇ Play with their hair

◇ Be silly when their emotions are overwhelming

◇ Let them wear your hoodie or shirt

◇ Congratulate them for doing something hard

◇ Take pictures with them

◇ Interact with their little space

◇ Say encouraging words

◇ If they say they love you more, fight back, tell them how much you love them (then cuddle attack…)

◇ Behind hugs are nice

◇ Make them blush

◇ Open doors for them

◇ Good morning/night texts

◇ Hold them when they shiver

◇ Use your Daddy/Mommy voice

◇ Give them that look

◇ Pet their hair

◇ Hide their eyes from scary stuffs

◇ Let them help you pick stuff out

◇ Kiss their boo boos and give them pretty bandaids

◇ Compliment them lots!

◇ Surprise them with stuff

◇ Remind them to brush their teeth

◇ Lose to their puppy face

◇ Decide for them

◇ Boop their nose

◇ Ask them if they need help

Today’s tutorial will be over how to do simple care and cleaning on a build a bear pony or stuffie! I’m only doing basic cleaning in this post. In posts to come I’ll cover other needs for stuffies and dolls.

I like to scout out thrift store to find stuffies especially build a bears! Some I find need love and a lot of it! From hair to cleaning and possibly some repair for rips. Today I’ll be cleaning hair and skin!

I’ll start with Luna! She has been on a shelf and is dirty and her hair is tangled. I start with a dry brushing carefully with a wire brush. If you don’t have a wire doll brush a regular brush works too. Try to get all the tangles out before her washing! Next is to wash her hair. With any stuffie that has hair sometimes they need a good washing to feel soft again. Wrap your stuffie in a towel leaving the hair out. Get the water as hot as possible. I use washing gloves that are heat resistant. Don’t burn yourself! Use regular shampoo and conditioner and wash the hair like normal.

All washed up! Now towel dry the stuffie and set it down on a towel to dry. Do not brush it while the hair is wet. If the hair is particularly tangled and you can’t brush it out dry while it has conditioner in it you can carefully brush it and the conditioner will help you work out all the tangles.

She’s all clean and ready to dry! Now onto the others! Rainbow dash and fluttershy. Fluttershy and Dash have curls but when they are dirty and tangled you’d never know. Once they got clean the curls popped right out!

Nice and clean now compared to the tangled mess of before! Just look at Dash!

Now With some stuffies when the are well loved their hair gets dry and brittle like human hair. To fix that we use conditioner during the wash to make it soft but the ends can still be frayed and damaged. I like to take little sections at a time and twist them to the very tip so I can see the problem area then skip off a little bit at a time. Now make sure you ask permission from your parents before you do this! And I only snip off a tiny bit! This isn’t a hair cut session! If you aren’t sure you and always ask me what I think!

See the difference in the way the hair looks now? It will lay nice and smooth again! The last problem to address is Rainbow Dash and Toothless they are dirty! Dash has a spot on her and toothless is very dusty!

For stuffies I like to use baby wipes first. This ensures that they won’t get water logged and wipes have a tiny bit of soap in them to help scrub away dirt without leaving behind any residue! Rainbow Dash came out clean as ever and toothless is now scalely black again!

After everyone dried throughly I gave them another brush to get them all soft and ready to go! Look how clean they are now!

I’m going to start making lists of things involving little and caregiver topics. This one is all about apps for phones and tablets. These range from games to self care to videos to books. Please let me know if these apps contain ANY adult themes or don’t work any longer. These should all be sfw and last time they were used they were.

All Age Games:

Toca boca brand apps

Jobi jobi games

Sago mini brand apps

Robot maker

Drawnimal

Rainy days

Fisher price

Charlie and Lola my little town

Bamba burger

Julius jr playhouse

Hey duggee: the sandcastle badge

Ben and holly: elf and fairy party

World of peppa pig

Pj masks: time to be a hero

Chuggington traintastic adventure

Lego duplo town

Care bear rainbow playtime

Miffys world

Beat bugs

Big kid games:

Little galaxy family

Lili

Godus

The trail

Animal crossing pocket

Stampede

My little pony

Big fish games

Snapimals

Minion rush

Out of water

Clumsy ninja

Recolor

Num noms: flavor fusion

Lego juniors

Hygiene and self care:

Pepi bath

Chore monster

Monster messenger

Viridi

Tep

Pepi doctor

Playmobile Children’s hospital

Brush up: tooth brush training

Headspace meditation

Stop breathe and think kids

Reading apps and education:

Dandelion

Daisy chain

Goodnight moon interactive book

Some story bots

Aniscience

My caterpillar

Goodnight mo

Leela kids podcasts

Nick jr books

Bedtime stories read and tell

Disney story central

Dr. Seuss books

Bible app for kids (Christian)

We’re little Muslims interactive book

Video:

Noggin preschool

Pbs kids video

Sesame Street

Hopster: learn and watch kids tv

Boomerang best cartoons

Disney junior

Brain pop