DisneyBride94
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noname70 said:We've moved up our departure date to WDW so our daughter will now only be 20 months when we arrive.
Any advice or experiences on exposing a child of this age to characters? I dread the though of her being too frieghtened by them. We were thinking of maybe starting off w/Chef Mickey's where she could see other kids interacting first.
Okay--it is my experience that all babies universally love Chip and Dale... I don't know why...but all three of my kidlets when ape over those big old chip munks... and they ARE at Chef Mickey's.
My youngest will be 16 months when we go in October--he is already a Mickey Freak...we have stuffed Mickey's and pictures of Mickey's on everything--and he already loves him...he'll even point him out on my clothing--like my pajamas.
Turn on Disney Channel and have her watch House of Mouse--that will familiarize her with the characters--get Disney Videos and watch them with him... Oh yeah--there is The Book of Pooh on DC too... Lilo & Stitch... etc. I found that my older children (2 and 4 last trip) were thrilled with any character they were familiar with prior to the trip--and not so much if they didn't have a lot of previous knowledge of said character. Books are also a good idea... Have your little one look at pics here of people with characters.
Kids also love the face characters (princesses, Mary Poppins, Aladin, etc.) My kids all have loved Pluto and Goofy... I've really had no problems with them being frightened of characters thus far...my firstborn was 15 months on his first vist...my second and third kids all started at 3 or 4 months... and up from there. My infant son was gaga over the princesses fawning over him
If you want me to e-mail you a link to my shutterfy pics of kids with characters--drop me a private message and I'll send it to you tomorrow.
HTH?