Has the American Girls Collection Influenced Your Life?

[perndragon]

Hi Everyone, I'm perndragon and a newbie to this list. I was so good to find a group that is devoted to one of my favorite things in the world AG Dolls! I have been a thrilled owner of a new Felicity for exactly one week, got her for my birthday after wanting one of these dolls since I was in third grade 1988. I have two questions for the group though first how do you keep your dolls looking great even after playing with them? and (for all of you who grew up with them) has the exposure to this company and its products influenced your life. I has mine and I only figured it out recently. They made me have an interest in history I have my B.A in it. One of my favorite colors is burgundy like the Ag Boxes. My favorite cookies are Gingerbread. I am a voracious reader. There are other things but I just wondered if any one else had the same response to these products thank you for this marvoelous group
perndragon*

[carolinapooh]

Hi Perndragon - and welcome to the board!

I started collecting as an adult, though I fell in love with the dolls when they came out and I was in high school.

I think the stories have affected me as an adult. I've always been a history buff, but since these are told through the eyes of a child, I think it makes those times past even MORE real for me. Especially the ones with the characters experiencing times of huge change. Addy, Felicity, and Kirsten easily come to mind - each one in her own way having to start a new life and develop a new way of seeing the world.

Molly and Kit's times are familiar to me because of the age of my parents, so their stories feel like the ones I've heard all my life. They are, for me, comforting.

Samantha is facing a time of great change herself, and her world will be much different from that of her beloved Grandmary.

So I don't think you have to be a kid to benefit from these dolls. I think there's always something all of us can learn.

[dolllover]

Hello and welcome to the board! I think the American Girls Collection has incluenced my life because now I am more interested in American history. I started getting interested in American Girl right around the time I was learning to read and I think reading these great stories about these characters in the past made me interested in the girls time periods and what things were like back then.

[JuliaAM]

Greetings and [img]graemlins/star.gif[/img] welcome [img]graemlins/star.gif[/img] to the board! If you've lurked at all, you know we've been waiting and waiting for the new Elizabeth collection to debut along with lots of new stuff. You're joining the board at a great time. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

Julia

[felicityprincess04]

Hi, and welcome to the board!

American Girl has influenced my life very much. I was never a big history person but reading the books was just so much fun for me. Whenever we are somewhere I blurt out a fact from history and my mom says "Where did you learn that?" and I say "American Girls!" [img]wink.gif[/img]

[Evette]

Welcome to the board. You are in the right place if you love AG's.

I have loved dolls all my life. I am one of the more senior members but I simply [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img] these beautiful quality made dolls and their accessories! Again, Welcome!!!!! [img]wink.gif[/img]

[PrincessRuthie]

Welcome to the board! [img]smile.gif[/img]

I also started getting into American Girl when I was beginning to read and found that I started loving history because of it. I love history in school now, and I know it's because of American Girl.

I've read each Historical's set of books, and I have to say that each one is so different. There's a different lesson to be learned in each girl's world. You learn the good things and bad things that have happened in American History, whether it's how the English chased away Kaya and her fellow Native Americans and forced them to adapt the English culture or how unequal Addy and her family were treated during the Civil War, and it's fascinating. I love the idea that you can learn things AND have fun at the same time. (Which is something that a certain teacher of mine never did last year!)

[ninasmom]

Hi, and welcome to this board. This is like my second home. I don't know how many times I check this board each day. I am addicted.

[Kathrine]

Welcome to our happy house!

Yes, AG has influenced my life very much this past year.
First of all these people have taught me so much about different cultures, I think it has made me a more understanding of others.
Because of people on this board my boyfriend and I were able to make a two week road trip in the US this March, beeing poor students, everyone who opened their homes for us for how ever short or long aded a number of hours we could financially justify to be travelling.
A member also took me in as a part of her family for a whole month and so allowed me to have a fantastic learning experience as a student-teacher in a US-school.
Without the funny, caring, wise women of this board my life would have been very different, and it is all because of American Girl!

-Kathrine

[AmericanGirlLover2982]

Welcome to the board!

Yes, the dolls have infulunced my life. I am a teacher asstiant and i run a bookclub once a month and teaching the girls currently about the Felicity's Era the Colonial Period. I have become a big history buff due to the American Girls Collection. I abosultly love them as if they were my own children they mean the world to me. I have Samantha, Nellie, Feliciy, LE Kaiely, and getting Elizabeth.