[Sophie_and_Oscars_Mum]

I received this lovely email from the red cross, it explains a bit the importance of these teddies. I have permission to share it, its especially aimed at those that helped me with the knitting.

Hi Michelle, these teddies are lovely…they look very lonely and all need a special person to comfort…The Trauma teddies in Scandinavia are like a pixi…I have forgotten their name but they have long long pointy ears…their stories find traditionally more comfort in that “brownie” than the teddy that Teddy Roosevelt started as a craze just before 1900.. When I was run over by the bus when I first started school, my mother looked after me as my Nana who was raising me was down here having cancer treatment…I had a favourite Koala bear…It got covered in tears and all sorts of nasty stuff so it was taken home to be washed…Nana had come bac and was squeezing out the bear and she wrung his head off…It was sewn back on but he was “dead” and I cried…Then I had another dolly and when I could walk again I was playing at the back of the doctor’s surgery…I got scared when his car came and I dropped my dolly…The doctor’s car wheel ran over her head…After that no dollies or bears were alive for me…childhood “magic” and belief that is so important for healing and strength went into something else.

The work you are doing is so important..

The Neo-Freudian Scholl of Child Psychology has the concept of the “play space” and the intermediate object in that place space…for most it is a dolly or bear, sometimes their cat….BUT without this very early imaginative relationship children do not go on the make secure loving relationships…so the work you do now lays the foundations for sane secure adults in the future and better partnerships and marriages…It is VERY IMPORTANT WORK….I have seen houses where there are no toys and no books…Keep up the good work

[mumsy]

Isn't it amazing how the simplest deed can go such a long way.

[CatsRU]

Thank you for sharing that email Michelle. Very heartwarming.

[bearsmum]

that was a great email it melts my heart heart to read something like that

[Sophie_and_Oscars_Mum]

I agree it is beautiful and thats why I wanted to share it with you too. Don't you love the reference to the cat, how appropriate.