For my niece’s second birthday,
we decided to buy her a dancing Teletubby. It’s red and fluffy; it makes noises
and plays three different songs; and it dances. But she’s absolutely terrified
of it. And I can see why. Why should toys move by themselves? They’re supposed to
be still unless they’re played with; and when it comes to switches that are
hidden and they move by themselves; they don’t understand how they work. They tend
to think that they’re real people rather than something that they can play
with. And you can see the same fear when someone dresses up as a kid’s TV
character. When they’re on the screen; they’re laughing and waving at them because
they’re a lot smaller. But when they meet them in real life; they’re unrealistically
huge so that they stand out from the crowd. They’d realistically think that
they’d be the same height as them, so you can see why there are some very
terrified tots out there.
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