Dolls
Barbie Diversity Continues in 2020
It is so exciting to see the newest array of diverse dolls coming out in 2020 thanks to Barbie’s Fashionistas doll line. We have a close connection to the designers thanks to the opportunity to collaborate with the team as they launched the very first prosthetic leg doll back in 2019. This year, the newest…
Read More +One-Of-A-Kind Barbie Doll Honors for Jordan Reeves
Back in December 2015, Jordan decided to use her voice to encourage change in what we see on the toy shelves. She saw mainstream toy companies adding new accessories to help kids feel like they weren’t left out. So she started a Change.org campaign asking for limb difference options. The combination of her petition and…
Read More +Innovation and Inclusion with Barbie
When Jordan spoke up about her hope to see more limb differences represented in toys, she did not expect anything would happen beyond gathering signatures on Change.org. Because she spoke up, she worked with the Barbie design team on a new doll that wears a prosthetic leg. And now, Jordan got to shoot a video…
Read More +At Long Last: Barbie Reveals Mainstream Dolls with Disabilities
For Jordan, it started when she was four years old. She was upset her American Girl doll didn’t look like her. It was a kick in the gut when I realized none of her dolls helped her feel comfortable in her own body. It was something I wrote about and recognized as a problem, but…
Read More +A doll just like Jordan
For years, Jordan has talked about wanting a doll that has a little arm just like her. It started as a topic of discussion when she was four-years-old and realized her American Girl doll didn’t look like her. The realization made Jordan sad. I even reached out to American Girl and the company will not make…
Read More +Doll love and sadness
Jordan goes through times when she really loves dolls. Of course our trip to American Girl refreshed her love. She carried her doll around just about everywhere after our Saturday trip. On Sunday she took the doll on a trip to my old hometown in the suburbs of Chicago. We were just getting out of…
Read More +A new doll
It was an overcast and eventually rainy day today… So after we enjoyed a lazy morning, the girls went shopping. Lucky for Jordan, she got her first real doll. You know: the kind that has a bottle and a pacifier. This one even makes a few sounds. All of it brings total and complete joy…
Read More +What an adventure
So we spent the day with all kinds of families of kids with limb differences… My favorite quote of the day from Cam: “There’s all kinds of kids here with little arms!” Probably since we didn’t make a big deal about today’s event except that we told him we were going to something that was…
Read More +Did I mention?
She suddenly loves dolls. It is so dang sweet. She's playing with dolls… Cam's taking a nap. It's good stuff.
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