Waldorf Wednesday is Back! Or why Boys need dolls!
- By Loretta Boronat
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- 13 Oct, 2015
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Ulla Seckler is a German immigrant who lives in Colorado with her family and makes beautiful handmade dolls to sell on the internet. While at the playground with her kids, she met a young mother with her four-year-old son and found out the woman’s dilemma about wanting to give her son the dollhouse he wanted but not wanting to displease her husband who would throw a fit at the very idea of it. Ulla encouraged the mom to just get the son his heart’s desire because she believes role playing with baby dolls and even dollhouses is very important for children as they soon would grow up and have their own family, children, and a house. Her opinion is that the world would be a much better place if only children, not just girls but boys too especially, are to have baby dolls and allow them to grow up in a more loving and nurturing environment so that they in turn would become a loving and nurturing adult someday. It is wrong to just assign young boys to only play with inanimate objects such as cars, and trucks just because they are considered by the society as manly. Read the full blog post here…

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