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Hasbro Littlest Pet Shop Paws Off! Electronic Diary

Everyone needs a place to keep secrets sacred, and this pet-purr-fect diary is just the place. Write down your deepest desires or draft notes to your best friend, then lock them inside the diary. Your very own guard pet will keep watch over your top-secret messages! Choose a password to record. If your diary recognizes the correct password, the guard pet greets you happily and the diary will unlock. If someone is snooping and says an incorrect password, your guard pet will growl or hiss and the diary will not open! Press the button inside and your pet interacts with you. You can even decorate your diary with the fun stickers! Psssst! Keep your password a secret and your guard pooch will help keep your private papers for your eyes only!

Diary comes with pet sticker sheets, 20 sheets of pet notepaper and an exclusive guard pet figure!

Want to make sure your secrets stay a secret? Protected by a barking guard dog lock in the Hasbro Littlest Pet Shop Paws Off! Electronic Diary, your secrets are safe from snooping friends, siblings, and even parents.


Keep your secretes safe, and decorate the diary with fun stickers. View larger. View Closed - Side.


Protect your most valuable secrets!
Recommended for ages six and up, girls especially will love writing and hiding their deepest desires.
Your Voice Unlocks the Diary
With a normal diary, you're just begging for someone to sneak a peek! But not the Paws Off. This voice-activated electronic diary lets you record a secret password for you--and you alone--to remember.
When the diary recognizes your voice and the correct password, then the guard dog barks happily and the diary pops open. When you press a button on the inside, the guard dog interacts with you. The cute figure even moves from behind its bubble dome so you can play with it any time.
However, if the password is incorrect, then the dog is not friendly. Releasing a loud, angry bark, the diary will not open. And in case would-be intruders have any more funny ideas, this diary keeps out unwanted guests with a hard, durable plastic design.
Fun Accessories
Speaking of design, the already festive pink, yellow, and purple diary comes with sheets of fun pet stickers to decorate your secret notes and diary case. And with 20 sheets of pet note paper held in place with cute paw print clips, you can write your biggest secrets or keep notes to friends safe until you see them next.
A wonderful addition to any Littlest Pet Shop collection, this electronic toy comes completely assembled and requires only three AA batteries (not included).
What's in the Box
Electronic diary, sticker sheets, 20 note paper sheets, and guard dog figure.

MISERY AND WOE OF THE WORKHOUSE

It was a strange experience for seven-year-old Jennifer Worth to be taken to a workhouse to visit a 'disgraced' aunt. Here is her harrowing story POOR Cissy. She went mad, you know,' the grown-ups said, and these words burned themselves into my memory. Our family were poor, hardworking farming folk.

Cissy, a servant girl working in a big house near Bristol, was just 15 when she became pregnant, was dismissed and then sent to Stapleton Workhouse. When the baby was born it was taken away from her. Cissy, nearly mad with shock and grief, was described as 'weak-minded and excitable, with hysterical outbursts,' and confined to the lunatic asylum.

When she became calmer, she was put among 'women of morally degenerate character'. She never saw her child again and never left the workhouse where she was to die many years later. Could this be a story from Victorian times, from Dickens' pen perhaps? No, it all happened in 1924 when having an illegitimate baby was so shocking that a girl could expect no mercy.

My mother visited Cissy and on one occasion took me with her. I have a clear memory of a long grey corridor, locked doors and people in grey uniforms holding keys.

We were taken to a huge room in which were a lot of old ladies in nightdresses - or so I thought. But, as I understood later, it was the uniform of the inmates, not nightclothes, and the 'old ladies' were probably not very old at all.

The place was huge, cold and alien, and, being surrounded by strangers, I was frightened. I was introduced to my aunt, but became tongue-tied and burst into tears. She put her arm around me but I pulled away screaming. Our meeting was not a success. It may not have been a good idea, taking a small child to such a place to meet an unknown aunt, but I am glad my mother did, because I have never forgotten my poor, sad, aunt Cissy. Thoughts of her stayed with me for years and I became determined to find out more about the workhouse system and why it drove people to madness or despair.

The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 led to large workhouses being built all over the country. Families were split up, food was scarce, there was little heating in winter and the huge dormitories had little privacy. On top of this, hard manual labour was required from the inmates. Rules, regulations, discipline and harsh punishments were the norm. With inmates locked in the workhouses became prisons.

The crime? Poverty. 'The workhouse should be the place of last resort,' said the state, but once there the most vulnerable people in society - the old, the sick, crippled, mentally defective people, children and unmarried mothers - suffered most dreadfully. After many damning government reports, in 1930 the workhouses were finally shut down.

But, the sad thing is, they didn't really close, they just changed their name and carried on much the same as before, with the same staff - whose traditions and mind-set remained firmly entrenched in the 19th century. Unmarried mothers were stigmatised, and made to pay for their 'sins', until well after the end of the last war.

The elderly were herded into workhouse wards, re-named 'old people's homes' and children were housed in large orphanages run by a disciplinarian staff. The vast mental asylums were the last to go, closed by the Thatcher government in the 1980s.

The workhouses' dark shadow fell over the whole of Victorian Britain - and then continued right up to the reign of our present Queen - 150 years of social history that should never be forgotten. When I was a young nurse and midwife in the 1950s I met several people who had been workhouse inmates and I collected their real-life stories together in a book called Shadows Of The Workhouse.

Jane was a pathetic, dithering wreck of a woman of 50 when I knew her. She had been brought up in a workhouse, a bright and brilliant child whose spirit had been utterly crushed when she was only eight. Her 'crime' was to imagine that one of the lordly guardians of the workhouse was her father. She called him 'daddy' and for this the workhouse master beat her almost to death.

She never recovered from the abuse. Old Mr Collett was all alone in the world, his family having died during both world wars. But he was a courageous, dignified old man of 80 when I knew him. Yet he ended his life in a place little more than a relic of an old workhouse, sleeping 70 to a dormitory, never going outside, his life regimented and institutionalised. He deserved better than that - after all, this was 1950, not 1860. Mrs Jenkins' sad story is told in an earlier book, Call The Midwife. When her husband died, she and her five children were sent to a London workhouse. Here the children were taken from her and she never saw them again. One by one they died and she didn't go to any of the funerals.

When I knew her she was half-demented - the workhouse had darkened her whole life. Most of the old workhouses have now been demolish

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