It's 2025, do you know where your Beanie Babies are? Yes, I said Beanie Babies. The small, not-so-plush, plastic-bean-filled stuffed animals you had in the ’90s.

But stuffed animals aren’t just for people working through trauma. Anyone can benefit from the gentleness, softness and self-soothing that a cute, plush object can bring, Genecov said.

(CNN) — Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. Adults can sleep with stuffed animals, too.

Especially important is to let boys keep their stuffed animals –– they need self-soothing too, Greenberg said. A sleep buddy A stuffed animal in your bed at night might be meeting evolutionary ...

It’s not immature to cuddle with a stuffie But that is the problem –– stuffed animals are for kids, you might be thinking. “If we think about it from the lens of being like a healthy ...

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed ...

Stuffed animals “struck a chord with young adults and adults as a means to entertain, ... Lamar added. The womb is a very safe space; then as babies, humans are swaddled to sleep, she said.

Stuffed animals “struck a chord with young adults and adults as a means to entertain, ... Lamar added. The womb is a very safe space; then as babies, humans are swaddled to sleep, she said.

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. “I’ve always had them ...

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. “I’ve always had them ...