>Have you not realised that we supply toy teddies to our children? We are teaching our children that teddies are acceptable, even objects of love and affection. Only a complete ban will break the cycle. Either that or we need to raise the tax on teddies every year so that teddy users contribute more to the real costs of cleaning up after teddy damage.

The teddy problem is more insidious than I had imagined. Our children are being desensitized to teddy bears.

>I must also observe that some of the older, more treasured teddies are the worst. Recently I saw one of them split open; the lint and mess will probably never be completely cleared from that room. This is serious stuff(ing).

This is an environmental disaster of living room proportions.