Comments for Buy a Doll, Save the World? at http://dollsmagazine.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://dollsmagazine.com Sun, 19 May 2013 20:50:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/488-buy-a-doll-save-the-world.html#comment-1120 alals, dolls are now being given to high school students for life lesson instruction. boy and girl students alike are given dolls to carry around as a cautionary prop for not engaging in teen sex. these robotic dolls are programmed to cry, wet, and coo for attention. i guess the student passes the course when the doll is returned in "good" shape. - patricia park Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:36:59 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/488-buy-a-doll-save-the-world.html#comment-1111 I know there are lots of little girls out there looking for dolls. I make a soft doll and I can't keep them in stock. When I do a craft show, that is the first thing to sell out. The last show I only had one left and two little girls wanted it. Only one got the doll and the other one went away crying. I felt bad that I didn't have one for her. Now has for the other aspect of my business which is buying older dolls and cleaning and redressing them. This part is exciting and entertaining. Watching the people come by at a show and relating their childhood memories and buying the doll they had is just wonderful. I think sometimes in this hard economy that people want to remember their childhood and their love of the dolls they had. They see it as a happier and easier time in their life. Then because I do some of the more modern Mattel Disney dolls too, I get the little girls and they know all the dolls names and they want those. So I live in the world of the older people who are remembering and the girls who know all the Disney characters and I don't see where dolls will every disappear. There will always be a need for a little cuddling and a doll will do that for the young and the old. - Eva Summers Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:51:58 +0100 http://dollsmagazine.com/articles/in-the-spotlight/488-buy-a-doll-save-the-world.html#comment-1110 Very thoughtful. I had LOADS of dolls and teddy bears as a kid... and was fully stocked with crayons and pastels and paints, coloured pencils and sketch books... So maybe I was weaned to be an artist who loves, and makes, dolls and teddy bears! hehe. Although my lack of baby style dolls and my love for porcelain dolls and artist teddies might not have primed me for a love of babies... I still don't like baby dolls! lol. I still think all girls need to have some dolls to dress and play with. I'm not sure it's like when I was a kid and all that was on your Christmas list was Cabbage Patch dolls and Barbies. I did ask my one friend what her daughter had on her Christmas list this year and at the top of the list was a Baby alive doll... So I think there are still little girls out there who love their dolly's :) I sure hope so. It will be a sad day when little ones don't love dolls anymore. :) Melanie - Melanie Clark Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:45:00 +0100