The Teddy Bear Hospital

"Where clincal gets cuddly"

My son's school is going to have The Teddy Bears Hospital visit them soon. According to the letter it's a chance for my child to take his 'ill' teddy into school and with the help of some medical students learn that visits to the Dr's doesn't have to frightening.

Well I don't know about other peoples children but mine have had the benefit of having parental support whilst visiting the drs surgery so no need for strangers to use a teddy bear to talk about 'awareness of their bodies' then surely?

Apparantly all the students have had CRB checks-why's that then? Are they saying that under different conditions this sort of activity might be attractive to child abusers?

I am not so sure that teaching five year olds to talk to strangers about 'body awareness' is such a healthy idea.

Am I overreacting due to normal parental protective instincts or is it just ever so slightly pointless and perhaps even an unecessary risk as far as child safety goes?

Www.teddybearhospital.co.uk