Think Chucky in bear form. But the Pox Teddy won't kill you, just infect your kid with a live virus. Worried your kid won't get the chicken pox and there isn't a party in town?
You could let him cuddle with his new favorite teddy bear. Just tell him to take deeeeeep breaths because the pressurized capsules of varicella virus will only last 10 minutes after you've released them all over his little body.
Creepy doesn't begin to sum this one up for me, but it does remind me of the tale of Velveteen Rabbit, the threadbare bunny chucked in the dustbin after his little boy went through a bout with the highly infectious scarlet fever. My daughter asks for the story often enough I should have all the details down, but we have the abbreviated version (it was a gift), and I can't remember just where the boy goes to recover when his bedroom is thoroughly cleaned to kill all the germs. I do know the bunny is scooped up and thrown in the pile to be burned, but he's saved by the fairy who turns him into a real bunny who hops off into the forest to frolic and play.
I've already had my say on exposing your kids to chicken pox instead of whisking them off to the doctor's office for a vaccine. Yes, I'm one of those moms who truly believes shots in the arm are good for kids, and yes, designer Mikael Metthey actually considers this a "needleless vaccine." But I'm not ready to turn the playroom into the next staging area for bio-warfare.
Are you?
Source, Image: Wired
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