Taggies
Do you ever get the feeling that someone has thought of something for everything? There are gadgets and toys to meet every mothering need, it feels like. You have diaper bags designed to make you look fashionable and be comfortable and hold everything you need to get through the day; as well as little bags in attractive fabrics to hold the wipes that go inside the diaper bag, and special holders for the soother so it doesn’t get dirty, insulated holders for the bottle so it doesn’t get warm, and plastic food containers that are divided so you can conveniently carry along your baby’s food and of course the container has a dent that perfectly fits the feeding spoon so you never lose it or leave your house without it. And the list goes on and on. Some inventions are just what you needed and really fill a gap while others are just more gadgets to accumulate.
I was noticing the other day that my six-month-old was really fascinated by the tags in her soft toys. She didn’t seem to care that we had carefully chosen toys that were beautiful or seemingly educational. She would dive right into the tags and entertain herself for a while mowing down on it. I wondered if someone had picked up on this and marketed it already. Sure enough, two days later I was talking to a friend and she showed me her baby’s new Taggies book - a cloth book that has tags sticking out from all their pages. It’s so much fun watching a baby have a field trip on one of these toys! They also make blankets, bedding and even clothes all filled with tags sticking out of everywhere. Like I said, they’ve thought of everything!
PerryWinkles Kids Blog » And more Labels… said,
February 27, 2008 @ 11:13 pm
[…] I recently was fascinated to find out that some very perceptive mothers had come up with a line of toys called Taggies that had a lot of tags around them. The inspiration for this was their babies’ seeming fascination with chewing on labels. Kathe Kruse, the German toy maker, also had the same idea with their new line of toys called Labelies. They make soft toys and blankets with a lot of labels like this adorable toy dragon. […]