Ancient African voodoo magic originated on the island of Haiti and is considered the true manifestation of evil. The voodoo doll (or volt) is one of the necessary tools in this magical direction. It can be used for various purposes, both good and bad.

What is a voodoo doll?

A kind of volt made from improvised materials is a magical prototype of a person and with its help any magical effect can be exerted. The voodoo religion contributes to the creation of an energetically powerful object through which you can control the "victim". There are many options for creating a doll and various rituals aimed at empowering it.

What does a voodoo doll look like?

It is impossible to describe a single image according to which dolls are created, since the number of possible options cannot be counted. A voodoo doll can be made from wax, cloth, straw, and other materials. Many are sure that it must certainly have an intimidating appearance, but in fact it is not, and it all depends on the purpose of creating the volt. In most cases, witches and other people who create a doll do it quickly, so they do not pay attention to its appearance, the main thing is to use all the necessary details.

What is a voodoo doll for?

In most cases, volts are created when there is an intention to cause physical or psychological harm to another person. Black magicians use puppets to cause damage or attract various troubles to a person. When figuring out how to use a voodoo doll, it is worth noting that rituals with volts, which imply a love spell, are very popular. In addition, volts can also be used in rituals, for example, to attract wealth, success, and so on.

Voodoo doll - myth or reality?

The debate over the operation and power of magic will probably never end. The African voodoo doll has also been criticized. Many scientists who conducted research in Africa were interested in the magical beliefs of the inhabitants of this continent, and they assure that volts have nothing to do with real magic. There is speculation that the doll was invented by an American writer who wrote a story about fictional voodoo magic. At the same time, many modern magicians and psychics use dolls in their rituals and assure that they have great power.

How to make a voodoo doll?

The most common are volts made from wax. This material is considered an excellent conductor, and it is able to accumulate, transform and store information. Before you figure out how to make a voodoo doll, you need to prepare the following items: three ordinary white candles, four thin sticks and a natural thin thread. Be sure to use something related to the victim, such as hair, nails, or personal items. Let's move on to how to make a voodoo doll with your own hands:

1. Take the longest stick, which will become the base. Using a thread, attach a smaller branch to it to get a figure resembling a Slavic cross. Two more sticks must be attached to the bottom of the base, which will serve as legs. The result should be a figure similar in shape to a person.
2. Crumble the candles into an iron container, removing the wick. Put it on fire and bring the wax to soften. The mass should become elastic so that it can be easily molded from it. You don't need to boil the wax.
3. Cover the wooden frame with the prepared mass. Try to repeat as much as possible the figure of the object chosen for the ritual. If there are nails of the victim, then add them to the wax mass. Attach your hair to your head.
4. The voodoo doll must be dressed in items made from the person's personal belongings. At this stage, it can be considered ready.
5. If there is a photo of a person, then you can cut out his face and attach it to the doll.

How to control a voodoo doll?

It is important to understand that voodoo magic has tremendous power, so it is better for beginners not to take risks, since any mistakes can have serious consequences. It is important to know the rules of how to use a voodoo doll as it is a powerful energy item.

1. It is forbidden to use it to bring on a person a fatal illness or other situations leading to death, since such rituals have a serious payoff.
2. If the magician does not have sufficient strength and protection, then there is no need to perform rituals in the cemetery and use things taken from the graves for making.
3. It is important not to tell anyone about the doll and to carry out the rituals alone.
4. You cannot use voodoo magic if you do not believe in it, as this can anger the spirits who will take revenge.
5. If the voodoo doll is broken, then you need to get rid of it and do it according to the rules (listed below). After that, it will be possible to make a new volt.
6. Each program on the doll works individually, so the ritual can work the next day, and after a few months or even a year. It all depends on the strength of the person who makes it.

Voodoo doll for love

To conduct a ritual to attract love, it is necessary to take into account the image of a loved one during the manufacture of a volt. It is important to obtain and use the genetic material of the object of adoration, such as hair and nails. It is also recommended to use pieces of clothing that a loved one constantly wears. There is an instruction on how to create a voodoo doll for a love ritual:

1. Start with the fact that hair and nails are attached to the volt, and for the outfit, use parts of the clothes of the object of adoration.
2. Be sure to call her the name of her lover.
3. During the manufacture of the doll, it is important to constantly think about the second half.
4. At the end of the ritual, say a plot. After that, you can make a love spell on the voodoo doll and use it in the ritual.

Slimming voodoo doll

Wanting to reset excess weight, can perform a voodoo ritual. During the manufacture of the volt, make it large, marking problem areas. Making voodoo dolls and rituals is necessary all alone:

1. Pick up a doll and imagine yourself slim and beautiful. Start pinching wax from problem areas: buttocks, hips and waist.
2. Do everything slowly and repeat the conspiracy during this. If it is difficult to read the words, then you can use the online playback in the translator.
3. When the figure becomes perfect, then collect the torn off pieces of wax in a silk scarf and burn it. Hide the doll away from prying eyes.

voodoo doll for health

You can also use magic to make a charm for health. Make a wax doll, as described above, but only mint, hops and must be put inside. If a voodoo doll is being made for good purposes, that is, to heal a loved one, then it is important to make the volt look like him as much as possible. During manufacture, think about how the patient is recovering. Give a volt to a person, and let him keep it next to him until he recovers.

Why is a voodoo doll dangerous?

It is important to consider that voodoo magic has a close relationship with spirits that require a certain fee for their help. People who own magical powers and constantly practicing rituals, they know how to pay off correctly, unlike a person who first encountered magic. A voodoo doll is a serious magical item, and if you make it to harm someone, the consequences can be sad, for example, mental or physical illness, financial problems, and even the death of a loved one.

How to protect yourself from a voodoo doll?

No matter how strange it may sound, you can also protect yourself from voodoo magic with the help of a doll. Volt must be created in its own image. Protection from the consequences of a voodoo doll will also be a talisman against other magical negativity, as well as from anger and gossip of enemies. For a volt, you need to make something similar to a house, where it will be warm and cozy. Put a doll in it and believe that all evil will pass by. Put everything in a secret place where no one can see.

It is equally important to know what to do if you find a voodoo doll, as it may be a lining. You cannot pick up a magic item with your bare hands. It is recommended to perform the ceremony on Saturday. Take and wrap the doll with a white cloth and generously sprinkle it with salt. Together with her, go to a deserted place and dig a deep hole there. Put a lining in it and burn it. Sprinkle the remaining ashes with holy water and fill the hole. When you get home, take some milk.

How to get rid of a voodoo doll?

If the created volt has fulfilled its purpose, it cannot simply be thrown away or kept at home, since it continues to be energetically connected with a person. In such a situation, it is important to know how to destroy the voodoo doll, and there are some simple rituals for this purpose. To perform one of them, follow the instructions:

1. Take a glass of holy water or use a charmed liquid. Dip the voodoo doll in the vessel and let it soak in the moisture.
2. Looking at the volt, clearly say the plot, and then, take it out and burn it. Be sure to bury the remaining ashes at the crossroads.

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We are looking for the perfect toy for a child. Is it a doll, is it a ball, is it a folk toy, is it a designer from a fashion store of intellectual puzzles for children? There are many opinions. Today - about the benefits of folk toys. The next material is about Froebel toys and popular culture.

Do parents know that 70% of young children - both boys and girls - would like to have a wooden horse? To do this, they just need to show the horse and let them play with it!

About the fact that parents most often do not suspect what their children like, about objects that pretend to be children's toys, but are not, that Barbie is a favorite doll for moms and about how adults should cultivate their taste among diversity of the toy market, we are talking with a doctor of pedagogical sciences, chief researcher at the Institute for the Study of Childhood, Family and Education of the Russian Academy of Education (RAO), leading researcher at the Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies of the RAE, author of the Path to the World of Fine Arts program for preschoolers ( publishing house "Drofa") Irina Alexandrovna Lykova.

Why are we talking about Barbie all the time?

- Recently, they again started talking about the fact that they will restrict the import of Barbie dolls into Russia. Tell me why we talk about Barbie all the time? Does Russia not have its own dolls?

— The problems began in 2004, when the Expert Council on Preschool Education completed its work in the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, which monitored the quality of this education and guarded childhood. Since then, for play equipment and toys, salability has become the main criterion. What is in demand on the market is what was offered to children. Control over the quality of the produced games and toys was undertaken (on its own initiative) by the Interregional Public Organization "Expertise for Children". But, according to statistics, from 2005 to 2016, no more than 5% of game and toy manufacturers turned to it!

- Perhaps the remaining 95% were afraid of censorship ...

- In no case. We have an Association Russian manufacturers and toy sellers, there is the Association of Children's Goods Industry Enterprises, in a word, there is a manufacturer and supplier of toys. And there is a teacher, a psychologist, a physiologist. They understand what should be the subject that a child picks up in early childhood. After all, this subject largely forms the child's worldview and determines the child's sense of basic trust in the world.

A toy is an intermediary between a child and the outside world.

The kid learns the world with the help of analyzers - vision, hearing, touch, smell, tactile sensations. He is in the role of a researcher. The color, shape, size, proportions, structure of his toys become a kind of language in which he begins to convey his own thoughts, feelings, sensations. When it is an affectionate pleasant tactile toy, the child is comfortable. He feels the world is kind and affectionate and builds his interaction with it accordingly.

Therefore, it is very important what kind of toy you give your child for his upbringing and development!

In all cultures of the world, we will find toys that have received universal recognition, passed through the centuries, have come down to our time and aspire to the future.

Doll funeral

- And how did the children play with those huge porcelain dolls in ball gowns that are now in museums?

- They weren't played. In the 19th century, France invented a marketing win-win by linking children's toys and fashion. Fashion designers dressed up the doll in modern adult dresses. The dolls went in bags all over the world and began to broadcast the fashion of France. Ladies dolls have become trendsetters. Such a doll was bought to demonstrate the wealth of the family, to prepare the child for the fact that he is rich, successful, that he has all the best and most beautiful things. The doll had a set of clothes and accessories, she was dressed up and decorated. And parents could show such a doll to visitors of their salon on Fridays!

In fact, traditional toys - balls, cubes - were in all children, including the children of the reigning persons. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, a wonderful exposition "Toys of the children of the Romanov family" reopened in Sergiev Posad. On it you can see authentic toys used by children from the royal family: including small suitcases with carpentry tools - for boys, a box with needlework - for girls. But visitors are most impressed by the puppets in costumes of the peoples of Russia, who prepared the royal heirs for the fact that they would rule in a country where people of different nations and different cultures live.

- It seems to me that the Barbie doll demonstrates the same features: glamour, style, luxury ...

— Quite right. Barbie dolls, like the porcelain fashion dolls of the 19th century, are rather collectibles. Barbie embodies a certain model of behavior, socio-cultural identification, a forecast of what success in life is. Therefore, Barbie is more attracted to a young modern mother than the girl herself.

- So Barbie is a toy for mom?

- In many ways. Mothers, aunts, grandmothers buy this doll because they like it themselves. Having before their eyes the example of Barbie, they replace their dreams, desires, ideals, unrealized life projects with them. And the girl has an “ideal”, which she really does not need. Adults impose on the child a toy that they themselves like. They also impose a model of life: you must be like Barbie in order to become successful in the near future.

- But it's probably right - to give the child a toy that you like yourself?

- Not always! One side, good toy unites children and adults with a common interesting thing - a game. But on the other hand, the addictions of adults are often dumbfounded. In Detsky Mir, experimental toys are sometimes sampled. So, one of the most successfully sold brands two or three years ago was a doll ... in a coffin.

- In the 18th century, children were also sometimes offered dead dolls. In that era, infant mortality was high and children often faced the death of their peers. And now - why?

- In my opinion, this is the interest of the generation of young parents who did not play enough in childhood. In the 90s they were deprived of the opportunity to play with their parents. And now, as adults, they buy toys for themselves! The more unusual, the better. Now is the time for the transformation of values, concepts, meanings. And what goes beyond the concepts of the usual, standard, understandable, attracts, just as ugliness sometimes attracts a satiated person. Parents should remember: there are objects that pretend to be a child's toy, but in fact they are not.

SHAKE AND LUSH

- Then how do you know: this is a real toy for a child, and that one is only pretending to be a toy?

- First you need to answer the question: what is a toy? If we turn to domestic dictionaries - Efremov, Ushakov, Ozhegov - we will find a concise definition: a toy is an object for a game.

Extremely short formula. But it's the whole point. The meaning of a child's toy is play. Especially - story game. This is the child's acting out of those roles, plots, behavior patterns that he observes in the life around him. In reality, he is not yet capable of joining this adult life, but by playing, he can live through conflict situations, win back the events that have touched him. Through this modeling, in his sociocultural experience, he receives a huge baggage: how to behave, how to be now and how to become as he grows up. What can a child play with Barbie? He can dress her up and play with her stories from the life of adults. But this is not a child's life. A mother who wants the girl to be kind, affectionate, loving and loved, so that she has a good family, should think about another doll.

A girl needs a baby doll that can be bathed, sung a song, fed, rolled around in a pram that needs to be treated like a baby. Playing with such a doll allows the child to live through roles, reproduce actions and even conflicts that occur at this age. Also, the roles that real life she is not yet available.

— Have new interesting dolls appeared in Russia over the past year? Which ones do you like best?

Let me tell you about my choice. This year, ELTI-Kudits, a Russian developer and manufacturer of toys, on the basis of which an expert council on play and toys was created, launched a successful project: didactic dolls "Inna" and "Alexander" with seasonal sets of clothes. Beautiful dolls, a pair of "girl-boy", are made in St. Petersburg from high-quality material and fabric. This is a real play doll for girls. High-quality, beautiful, similar to a child, with which you can really play. You can also dress up: she has sets of clothes for all seasons, she is sewn in St. Petersburg.

Who needs giant teddy bears?

- Some psychologists say that it is wrong to give a child tall dolls or large teddy bears, while others say that too small dolls are dangerous for the child's psyche. What size should the toy be?

- A child, unlike an adult, lives in three spaces of different scales. One space is commensurate with itself: it is children's furniture, a children's playroom, everything that is specially made by adults to fit the size of a child.

The second space is a play space, where everything is small, where the child feels like a Gulliver among midgets. Why are the very first, most favorite toys of young children - cubes and a ball? Because thanks to the cubes, the child not only realizes the world, but also creates it. Let it be a small world and it can be easily destroyed, but this is his world. Operating with the functions available to him and objects that suit him in size and proportions, the child feels himself skillful and successful in his world.

The third space is the world of adults, where everything is big. Why does a child like to try on mom's shoes or dad's shirt? He feels at the same time: "Here - Big world, and I'm still small, but I'll grow up too.

It is necessary to select a toy according to temperament and individual characteristics. It is important that the size of the toys be related to the child's willingness to manage them. By analogy with modeling: there are miniature children who sculpt everything very, very small, and there are monumental children who like to make something very big. Some of them can grow into artists who love miniature and create jewelry, from others - those who create gigantic monumental structures. This, too, comes from childhood.

But do not surround the child with toys of the same size! The more diverse the experience, the more diverse the abilities that develop. And it depends on how diverse (including in size) the objects in the nursery are. For starters, it is important that the child is comfortable. He himself will show whether he will be interested in playing with this object, whether he wants to roll a ball of this size, hit it on the target, move, knock, toss.

At one and a half to two years old, a child is unlikely to be able to skillfully control a small ball, throw it up, catch it: the ball will fall past his hands. Therefore, you need a ball the size of a girth with two hands. But at the same time it is impossible to introduce all the exercises into the child's experience at once. You create a choice for him, and then for a while you need to exclude other toys and let him play with the most comfortable toy in size.

If it's a big ball, you need a big basket or bowl where you can throw it. If we roll the ball, we can put skittles, we can just two chairs and get into this goal. This is how the game situation is created.

horses

According to research, 70% of young children - among them both boys and girls - would like to have a horse toy. Since prehistoric times, parents have given their children clay and wooden horses. These wonderful, mysterious horses, born in different countries are similar to each other, like brothers.

The Russian Dymkovo toy is a symbol of joy, openness to the world, readiness for a swift flight. And here is her Swedish sister, a horse from Dalarna, a symbol of the Kingdom of Sweden. Many children and adults like the Gorodets rocking horse. The tradition of making rocking horses is also being revived by other folk crafts: “Decor of the North”, “Tsaritsyno Toy”.

— At your initiative, in the program for kindergarten classes on folk toys were introduced. Why, in the age of computers, do you recommend that kids get acquainted with the works of Dymkovo, Filimonov, Bogorodsk masters?

— Because a folk toy is the embodiment of centuries-old traditions in a tangible and life-affirming form. Folk toys are carriers of meanings and values ​​that are passed down from generation to generation through an ornament (rhythmic pattern), unusual coloring and plasticity.

Over the centuries, not only ways to make a toy rationally and with a minimum of funds are honed, but the very ideas that a folk master puts into his work.

Peasant children played with toys that were created in the traditions of folk crafts or were homemade. From the cob of corn, the child could make himself a doll. Or wrap a chock in a rag, as if it were a diaper doll.

Mom, even before the birth of a child, prepared for his arrival in this world and made toys for him. The first rattles were actually tactile toys and are called quad dolls. They were woven from scraps of fabric of different colors and hung like a bundle in a cradle. At first, the baby perceived them visually: they are bright, multi-colored ... Then he grabbed them and found out that they were pleasant to the touch. Then he pulled himself up in the crib to grab them (for this they had to be tightly tied). And then the child began to make toys for himself together with his mother and grandmother. He mastered the basics - to sew, knit, weave, plan, tie ...

For fifteen years now, together with my graduate students, we have been working with the Dymkovo toy. Thanks to this work, a whole galaxy of Dymkovo masters began to come to kindergartens and conduct master classes for children, teachers and parents.

- Today, the child has more beautiful toys that can be dressed in luxurious dresses ...

— I think that the main idea of ​​Russian folk toys is harmony with the world. The folk toy has already found the harmony of mind, feelings, attitude to the world and understanding of the universe. This is the special language in which the master conveys his worldview in the language of forms, lines, and color schemes accessible to the child.

Are beautiful and smartly dressed porcelain dolls 19th century - not the embodiment of harmony with the world?

— Such porcelain dolls are only beauty and success. A folk toy carries moral categories that are important for human life. This is beauty and goodness. The folk toy has a plastic, streamlined shape. It is like a ball, comfortable and convenient for the child. Folk toy is affectionate. She is initially kind to the child. You can’t hurt yourself on it, it easily goes into space and will not offend anyone. folk master created a toy comfortable, consonant with the human body. The doll can be the size of a finger and a palm. There is an elbow doll and even a life-size one. The latter are rare, but they were in the folk theater. That is, a folk toy is created in the system of the same three scales that we talked about.

Therefore, any object of folk culture is pleasant to pick up and do not want to let go.

- But the teddy bear also does not want to let go

- A teddy bear, by the way, also used to be a folk toy. But now teddy bears are industrial production, which means serialization, standardization

- If parents would like to introduce their child to folk toys, how to do this?

- In kindergartens, such an acquaintance is provided for by the educational program. So a folk toy can come to a family from kindergarten. If a child can play with her in kindergarten, if she is not standing on a shelf, locked from him with a key, he will definitely tell about it at home. And the teacher will explain to parents how to use these toys to decorate the children's room, for children to play. For example, learning to count. Someone does it on a special counting material or on a tablet. Try it with folk toys! Here are beautiful wooden or clay folk ducks. How good it is to count with their help, placing them in a row, making plot puzzles. Let's arrange them on the table: the ducks swam in one direction ... this duck fell behind ... how many ducks are left?

— What folk toys are available for parents today?

- Bogorodsk toys. These are dynamic wooden figurines made of soft wood that attract children from an early age: bears that chop wood or saw, chickens that peck ... New forms and new ideas for such toys are being developed: what can you say about a bear with a computer? Unfortunately, the Dymkovo toy has now become a souvenir product and belongs to childhood to a lesser extent. It is so expensive that in kindergartens they try not to give it to children to play with. It is only shown in class. aesthetic education or in the mini-museum of the kindergarten. Although initially they were excellent whistles. The holiday of the Whistle was celebrated, when the children took them in their hands and could whistle. It brought everyone together and made them happy!

What the children younger age close and understandable folk toy, proven by scientific research. They were held all over the world, including in Russia at the Research Institute of Preschool Education in Moscow, which was unique in the 60s of the XX century. Specialists from Finland and Japan came there for consultations - from those countries that today are ahead of us in terms of the level of education. Largely because these countries have found a recipe for successfully uniting the most modern technologies and traditions. Should we forget about it today? The program of Irina Lykova "Path to the world of fine arts" is included in the educational program preschool education Paths, edited by Vladimir Kudryavtsev. In the program "Paths" the project "Dymkovo toy in clay modeling and modeling", and "Dymkovo toy in plastic, paper modeling" (together with N.K. Garanina) was prepared. Teachers involved in this program receive a practical guide with the necessary patterns, silhouettes, elements, descriptions of how to make a Dymkovo toy with your own hands. Getting ready to go new program Irina Lykova for kindergartens "The ABC of Folk Culture", which tells educators and parents how and at what age one or another folk toys can be used and where they can be purchased.

Do you remember your childhood world? It has to do with toys. You had many of them, but one was your favorite.

The world of childhood in this place has not changed in any way today. Now your daughter has a favorite toy with which she sleeps and plays. Initially, this is usually required. soft toy in the form of some animal.

However, the time comes and you notice that the baby begins to reach for new toys that no longer look like little animals, but have a human image. And here it is very important for you, parents, to make the right choice.

Remember! The influence of toys on the further development of the baby should not be underestimated.

Think back to your childhood when you first saw your favorite doll. You instantly tried to give her a certain role: daughters or girlfriends in order to continue to communicate. This doll becomes your friend in seconds. Then you consulted with her, secretly, played, slept, ate and even went to visit.

Modern dolls have exactly the same impact on the worldview of your child now. That's just their appearance and inside is not at all safe for him.

And here are the reasons.

The first reason: Modern dolls distort the perception of reality

Have you noticed what body proportions modern dolls have? Each element of the body looks bright and is written out to the smallest detail. Each modern doll has thin, slender legs almost “from the ears”, a wasp waist and a beautiful long neck, huge eyes half a face - you won’t find a person with such proportions. The face is generally drawn in such a way that it looks like the doll is preparing for a photo shoot. This presentation of the image misleads every child. Baby sees that, on the one hand, the plausibility of the image in terms of details is very large, but its features are deceitful in relation to reality ...

Even if such a doll becomes a friend for a girl, then her mental and sensory perception is disturbed, and a false ideal is born.

In life, we, adults, make friends in order to get support and mutual understanding in another person, we try to find a friend who is close in views and judgments. And think about what you can “talk” with such a doll? Only about the holiday and entertainment. “You just need to smile” - this is written on the face of the doll.

But do not forget that the little girl is still looking closely at everything around her and her mental perception of the world is just being formed. She plays various roles "Who to be?", "Who will I be when I grow up?" And what does she see? The image is directly opposite to the reality of life.

Here the girl suddenly begins to "suspect" about her "imperfection". This seed of doubt is nourished daily and grows more and more. She may even begin to feel imperfect.

This condition can be easily noticed at any age, when the child begins to constantly look at himself in the mirror. So gradually the image of a modern doll begins to form an inferiority complex in a child.

Remember! A distorted perception of the image of a person leads to a violation harmonious development child, interferes with his bodily, mental and intellectual development.

The second reason: The material from which the modern doll is made

Modern industry has repeatedly been publicly accused of using banned synthetic materials that harm the health of children.

When buying a modern doll, you can already notice the level of danger for your child in terms of price-quality ratio. This is undoubtedly a very strong argument! Indeed, real quality always costs a lot of money. And then the choice is yours!

Just think about what it means when doll set does it cost 1 euro?

Such a “little thing” was made in the countries of Southeast Asia, and no one monitors the quality there.

And in Europe, 75% of toys are made in China. The market is actively growing the share of production of dolls from Vietnam.

The world-famous Robert Koch Institute in Germany (Robert-Koch-Institut, RKI), which began its history in 1891, has published its current research data. They cannot leave anyone indifferent. Just think: there has been a 50% increase in childhood cancers since 1980!

In Germany, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) also published the results of their research chemical composition modern toys. Analyzes have shown that they contain a dangerous amount of carcinogens. And in both rubber and plastic toys!

Specialists pay special attention to toys with elastic body parts. For their manufacture, rubber is added to the plastic. A more detailed analysis of these plasticizers and softeners showed that they can cause not only cancer in a child, but also infertility.

Of course, in the European Union there are certain standards that strictly determine the amount of toxic substances in each doll, but they have not been revised for a long time and are already very outdated. This was due to the active growth of industrial production and the invention of new types of plasticizers.

Scientists have calculated that in one toy there can be 1000 times more plasticizers than ... in a car tire. And active communication with such a doll for 1 hour has a carcinogenic effect on the girl of such a level, which is equivalent to two packs of cigarettes smoked in the room in her presence.

And these are just invisible reasons for refusing to buy for your child modern doll.

And remember your feeling of cold from a plastic toy? And you will understand that the depth of feelings can only be obtained by touching wood or wool. Such a warm toy, in addition to warm feelings, is able to convey to the child the very feeling of history.

Reason #3: The modern doll limits the imagination.

All children tend to always come up with something, for the flight of their imagination there is nothing impossible. This is the beauty of childhood.

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When a kid in a second can turn an ordinary cube into a piece of cake, and a chair into a car, a steam locomotive or even a house - it is all his imagination that allows him!

In life, a child's imagination can be directed in different directions at once. So he learns to operate with things and quickly replace one object with another.

Remember! Fantasy in a child must be developed from childhood!

It is the development of fantasy that gives the development of a strong-willed beginning and contributes to the formation of the inclinations of self-sufficiency in each child.

In a Waldorf doll, for example, the eyes are not decorated in any way. This is done so that the child independently completes the image of the character in his fantasy, depending on the conditions of the game. For the formation of the personality of the baby, it is important to fully experience the feelings of each character in the role-playing situation. When some emotions are already imprinted on the face of the toy, it ceases to be a flexible tool for playing. It is then difficult for the child to role-playing game, which he leads, to turn a doll with laughing eyes into a doll with hurt eyes.

But in order to play with a modern doll, the child is offered in addition everything at once in finished form: a certain style of clothing, accessories, you can even buy the furnishings in the room already thought out to the smallest detail and the whole social circle - a girlfriend, a little kid or a ready-made guy.

With such a variety, the imagination of the girl herself does not develop at all.

Agree, it’s not at all easy to try on a state of resentment, thoughtfulness or sadness to the painted smiling face of a modern doll.

Fourth reason: The foundation of direct consumerism is being laid

This happens when the fantasy and imagination of the child himself does not develop at all, and everything in the set is immediately sold in addition to the modern doll: clothes, accessories, and even a house and friends.

The use of ready-made models does not allow the child to develop imagination and accelerates the feeling of consumption in him. He gets used to the fact that this dress can only be worn by a doll for a ball, but this one is only for school ... When we set limits for a little person, he cannot develop creatively. It is important to give him space to play freely until at least the age of 9, so that in the future he can give the world his maximum potential.

This approach teaches from childhood not to think, but only to take.

Remember! It is very important not to miss the moment of growing up until the age of 9, when the child's creative potential is laid for his successful future and he learns to build his "adult" life.

Fifth reason: Fast saturation from communication with a modern doll

Have you noticed that manufacturers use bright acid pink, green, yellow colors in the appearance of modern dolls? After all, it is precisely such a selection of colors that is designed to quickly saturate the toy itself. Such an approach in the future inevitably leads to the acquisition of a new toy, because the world of bright colors is simply vital for the baby.

He wants to once again experience that moment of delight and joy. new toy. The feeling is quite understandable and very necessary for every person. Indeed, in a state of spiritual joy, positive emotions are liberated in the baby and a sense of celebration is created. And this feeling teaches you to enjoy life!

Only then the holiday ends, the colors fade and, as a rule, something in the doll breaks or is necessarily torn. But this state of affairs does not suit the baby and she again demands the continuation of the holiday! How many of these scenes have you seen more than once near a children's toy store?

You now understand that so artificially by the manufacturers of modern dolls, with the help of parents, a difficult situation is formed in children, consisting of a real dependence of the baby on a bright combination of colors and at the same time there is an inability to enjoy the subtlety of colors, feelings, details. It has already been thought out in advance that after communicating with such a doll, the child will definitely remember that there is still some new, bright modern doll in the store, which will again return the feeling of a holiday. This desire will grow in the baby every day, there will be demands and can even reach children's tears and tantrums.

Only you can stop this circle of useless and even dangerous purchases. And it’s even better not to buy such modern dolls for your child at all!

Remember your childhood! After all, how many plans for further actions did you build, how many interesting things did you come up with to improve the image of your favorite doll!

Do not deprive your child of these opportunities!

Remember that there are time-tested dolls that are in no way inferior to modern ones in the game. It is they who can help your child grow up as a harmonious and all-round personality. Today you can choose a modern doll self made from natural materials- wool and wood, which are truly close to human skin.

Since the last century in Aldorf pedagogy has established itself as the closest to the inner world of children.

Waldorf teachers recommend that parents not buy toys for children in which all the details have already been worked out and thought out at all, but they recommend teaching the baby to create and fantasize all kinds of role-playing games from improvised material.

Herself waldorf doll for children under 3 years old, it has no eyes at all - it is faceless, which is very reminiscent of folk. She is very comfortable to sleep with. She also happens to have painted closed eyes.

For playing during the day, there is a more complicated Waldorf doll with open eyes, which are drawn with small dots, and a crescent-shaped mouth. When a child grows up over 3 years old, certain facial features are already more clearly formed in a Waldorf doll: a nose, embroidered eyes and a mouth, and the thumb also begins to stand out on the hand.

For such a doll, it will be interesting for each girl not only to come up with clothes, but also to sew on a button, tie a scarf, put on or take off a dress and even braid, or maybe create unusual beads or even sew clothes according to her own idea!

This approach allows the child to fulfill their fantasies in various game situations during any role-playing game.

As you can see, there is always a choice! All you need to do is make the RIGHT choice.

Dolls rule fashion

In our age, dolls are, most often, children's toys. But it was not always so. In ancient times, the Slavs took them quite seriously. Dolls were the main amulets, each of them performed its "duties". Most were identified with the image of female deities. There are already about the dolls of our ancestors in SHJ. I'll try to complete it.

doll grain revered for the fact that she was "responsible" for a good harvest. But growing and harvesting is only half the battle. The harvest should ensure a comfortable life and prosperity in the house. Do it without a doll rich no way, our ancestors believed. At its base, the doll had a stick, or a column, for which it was also called Stolbushka. For complete prosperity in the house, it was necessary to ensure that the doll on an unstable base fell less often. So that no one would interfere with the doll to fulfill its "duties", it was hidden from prying eyes.

A girl of marriageable age put a doll at the window cabbage, so that the grooms are not afraid of rejection and know that matchmakers will be welcome in this house. The buxom doll symbolized the mother-nurse; in different places she was also called feeder or Rozhanitsa.

The doll was able to protect the child from evil spirits and calm in the cradle insomnia. The mother twisted a simple doll-amulet from two patches and put it in the cradle of the child, saying at the same time: "Drowsy-insomnia, do not play with a mime child, but play with this doll."

The dolls of our ancestors carried a good beginning and were faceless. No peepholes, spout buttons and sponges with a bow. A doll with a face, according to the Slavs, acquired a soul and could be used for witchcraft and inducing damage.

Making a doll was a purely feminine affair. Men were not allowed to even look at the process out of the corner of their eye. It was believed that the fate of the family and clan depended on the quality of the work of the hostess. Before embarking on such responsible work, the woman tuned in, read conspiracies.

A woman made her first doll at about 12-13 years old. According to the quality of the product, they concluded that they were ready for marriage. The most beautiful of the handmade dolls were kept in a chest and were part of the dowry.

Dolls accompanied our ancestors from birth. And even took part in the fate of the unborn child. A couple of weeks before giving birth, a woman twisted a doll Kuvatka. Its name imitated the cry of a child - "kuvakane". The doll was needed to warm the cradle for the baby, and with his arrival in our world, he had to drive away evil spirits.

After the first contractions, the woman in labor was taken to the bathhouse, where she, standing on her right knee, read the plot and wound pieces of cloth on small sticks. swaddling clothes it should have been twelve. Each was named after the disease that they wanted to take away from the baby. This was the main "work" of diapers, which were also called lihomanki or shakers. If the amulets did not cope well with the assigned “work”, the mother could scold Kuvatka and threaten to put her out on the street.

Although most of the dolls were "women", the patronage of crafts was entrusted to male dolls. They were kept in workshops. Today, perhaps, only three are known: twins Kozma and Demyan, Yes sacrum Andropushko. In our age of plastic barbies, people have forgotten about rag dolls-amulets.

Why did our ancestors keep ... dolls behind the stove?

In ancient times, our ancestors had a cherished custom: to keep 12 dolls - “spins” (or “columns”), made by all members of the family living in the house, suspended on one thread behind the stove.

In this case, it was necessary to comply with a number of special conditions and rules.

For example, you can’t use either scissors or a needle: either the flax fiber was wrapped in a rag and tied with linen thread in a special way, so that an oblique cross appeared on the chest (this is how the “pillars” were made), or the rag was twisted and tied up to form a head, arms, figures (the "pillars" did not have hands). Sometimes a twig served as the vertical base of the doll, somewhere they were made of birch bark.

The face was not drawn (as in the case with), so that an evil spirit would not infiltrate. And the whole creative process was accompanied by ritual words - slander. Even the place of manufacture of these dolls was provided for by the ritual. For example, in the collection “Northern Tales” by N.E. Onchugov it is reported (by the way, in the story with the eerie name “Killer Sister”) that this was supposed to be done in the sun, i.e. just behind the stove, where all the belongings and old things were stored, which means that there was plenty of material for needlework.

Why were these puppets needed?

This dozen homemade products had a special name: "fever" or "fevers", i.e. the personification of all kinds of ailments. It was believed that behind the stove they would attract diseases to themselves, saving the family from them. The number 12 was not accidental. On the one hand, it symbolized the whole year round.

On the other hand, it was connected with an old legend about Kumoh. Actually, that's what the spring cold fever was called. And they represented her in the form of a portly woman, found in the forest along with her 12 sisters, who carried out Kumokhin's orders. They could get into a peasant's hut through a chimney, naturally, in order to harm people. That's why they made feverish dolls under conspiracy words, in order to stop adversity right there, behind the stove.

Not only Kumoha, but also each of her sisters had her own name, which was also called the doll depicting her. Here's what they were called: Deaf, Looking, Grisey, Gruditsa, Decrepit, Yellow, Korkusha, Ledeya, Nemeya, Ognya, Pukhneya, Shaking. True, in other places they called Ledea Chill, Griseya - Gnyateya, Shaking - Tryacheya, Nemea - Nivea (carrying death). In some places Khrapusha was included in this team instead of someone else.

But the essence of the rite was still quite common for different localities.

Fever dolls hung behind the stove until a certain day (where - before Maslenitsa, where - before the Annunciation), and then burned, often - along with straw from old mattresses. After burning, a new batch of "fever" was made. If someone in the family fell ill, the corresponding chrysalis could be burned ahead of time (with sentences again) to ensure recovery. And in the cradle of a sick baby, before being burned, they put such a doll.

According to a later version, lihomanka dolls personified Herod's daughters, and with their presence they protected the hut and household members from "alluvial trouble."

Now, far from everyone has stoves, and children from childhood are drawn to the computer and to the TV, but it’s such a wonderful family activity to make home-made dolls! Should we try?

It is believed that girls from birth should hug plush animals, draw princess castles and put their favorite baby doll to sleep, covered with a lace blanket. And the boys, on the contrary, as soon as they learn to crawl, among all the toys, they should without a doubt choose tractors, super-heroes, pirate ships and play the conquest of the fortress. Although in many ways, of course, such a division into “girlish” and “boyish” toys is imposed by adults. Many fear that toys at an early age can form the wrong idea about male and female roles and therefore choose only those toys that correspond to these roles.

Psychologists unanimously assure that there is nothing wrong with the fact that boys play, and girls play robbers. Rare deviations from the norm, which are so afraid of many parents, are accompanied by hormonal disorders and changes in behavior, not only during the game. Dolls, with which many boys so love to play, cannot in themselves interfere with a healthy development process. \

Let's see why it is so important and useful for boys to play with dolls and which doll to choose for a boy if he is interested in playing?

1. At the age of 6 months to 2 years, the baby learns how a person works. With the help of the simplest baby doll, he will be able to learn the names of the parts of the human body, learn how to show them. A doll for any child (and therefore for a boy) is source of human knowledge, an object around which communication with adults unfolds.

2. From about 2 years old, the doll will come in handy for the boy to learn to care about someone who is younger and weaker. You can also try undressing and dressing the doll to learn how to dress yourself. Also a doll at this age will help get used to the routine. In the morning we brush our teeth and have breakfast together, then we go for a walk, and in the evening we go to bed.

3. While playing with dolls, the boys learn about the structure of the family and society. At the age of 3-4 years, adults need to tell the child different stories for playing with a set of small dolls. And a doll that looks like a boy will help him deal with communication challenges and understanding oneself. In addition to playing "hospital", "shop" and "school", the boy will be able to tell the doll what good or bad things happened during the day. You can be angry with a doll, you can educate it, you can put up with it - experience different feelings in the safe area of ​​the game.

4. It is important to remember that (about a small and weak creature who needs help) brings up responsibility in a child. Playing with a doll, endowing it with character, fate, habits, all children learn understand other people's feelings. It is important for a boy to experience and be aware of different feelings. This is where puppets come in handy.

5. The same game of "daughter-mother" that so often scares parents (especially dads) can be very useful for boys. She will help consolidate the care received from mom in his own actions and learn skills that will be useful to him later, in his own family.

What doll should a boy choose?

Psychologists do not advise limiting the puppet arsenal of boys to Batman, Spider-Man and Transformers. They personify masculinity and strength, but these are the heroes of popular films, not real people. Following the example of superheroes, boys may decide that showing weakness, asking for help, or crying is shameful because Batman never cries or gives up.

Barbie doll is also not the best choice for boy. She has too pronounced sexual characteristics and a rather narrow "specialization" - outfits, entertainment, lifestyle. Even girls are better off giving Barbies after 6 years.

Worth it for a boy choose a doll made of natural materials- made of fabric or wood. The doll must have neutral facial expression so that the child can give her different feelings. Well if she will looks like a boy- in pants short hair, but even that is not necessary. The main thing is that he himself showed interest in the game. And you stand aside, look at how the boy plays with dolls and don’t worry - he just learn to be human.