25% of British men travel with their teddy bears

 Study: 25% of British men travel with their teddy bears

By Jules Siegel

(Trav­elodge PR) A sur­vey con­ducted with 6,000 Britons by =
Trav­
elodge revealed 35% of adults admit­ted they sleep with their teddy
because they found cud­dling their bear com­fort­ing. Also t=
he calm­
ing feel­ing of a bear hug also helps them to de-​​str=
ess after a hard
day — which aids sleep.

Research find­ings also revealed 25% of male respon­dents reporte=
d
they take their teddy bear away with them when going away on busi­
ness. As it reminds them of home and a bear cud­dle helps them to nod
off as they miss a bed­time cud­dle from their partner.

The sur­vey was con­ducted to inves­ti­gate the nation=
’s fas­ci­na­
tion with sleep­ing with a teddy bear. As in the last 12 months, the
hotel chain has had to reunite over 75,000 for­got­ten cud­d=
ly bears
that have been left in its 452 hotels with their owners.


Cor­rine Sweet, Psy­chol­o­gist, said: “cudÂ=
­dling a teddy bear is an
impor­tant part of our national psy­che as it evokes a sense of p=
eace,
secu­rity and com­fort. It’s human nature to crave these =
feel­ings
from child­hood to adult life, which is why 35% of British adults
sleep with their teddy bear. It’s not sur­pris­ing, then,=
 that tak­ing
a cud­dly bear on a busi­ness trip is so pop­u­lar, eve=
n among men
(25%). As a bed­time bear evokes the secure feel­ings of home and
warmth which can aid sleep — just like in childhood.

Fur­ther find­ings from the research revealed that over half of
British adults (51%) still have a teddy bear from their child­hood and
Britons aver­age teddy bear is 27 years old.

One in ten sin­gle men sur­veyed admit­ted they hide their t=
eddy bear
when their girl­friend stays over. Four­teen per cent of marÂ=
­ried men
reported they hide their teddy bear in the wardrobe or under bed when
any fam­ily and friends come to visit.

Inter­est­ingly more men at 15% com­pared to 10% of women re=
ported
they treat their teddy as their best friend and will share their inti­
mate secrets with their bear.

Also over a quar­ter (26%) of male respon­dents stated it is quit=
e
accept­able to have a bear regard­less of your age.

‘Dawn James, Arc­tophile and edi­tor of Teddy Bear Times =
said: “Teddy
Bears rep­re­sent hap­pi­ness and secu­rity in chi=
ld­hood. They are
the best friend that always lis­tens and never crit­i­cises.=
 This is
why so many adults hang on to their child­hood bears, because they see
them as a life­long friend.�

“The pop­u­lar­ity of teddy bears is going from stre=
ngth to strength.
There are col­lec­tors across the UK who have thou­sands of =
bears in
their houses.�

The research also looked into which bear has the ‘Zzz ‘fac=
­tor and is
the nation’s favourite bed­time bear. Top­ping the â€=
˜Zzz’ fac­tor bear
poll was the tra­di­tional teddy bear — which has also ap=
peared in
cult TV pro­grammes such as: Playschool (Big Lit­tle Ted), Andy P=
andy
(Teddy) and Brideshead Revisted (Aloysius.)

Listed below is the nations all time top ten favourite cud­dly bears:

- The clas­sic teddy bear

- Win­nie the Pooh

- Padding­ton Bear

- Tatty Bear

- Sooty

- Care Bears

- Yogi Bear

- Fozzie Bear

- Rupert the Bear

- Super Ted Baloo

Dawn James, Arc­tophile and edi­tor of Teddy Bear Times said: â=
€œIm not
sur­prised that the tra­di­tional teddy is the nationâ€=
™s favourite
bear. It’s a design that has lasted for well over a hun­dred y=
ears and
most peo­ple have had a tra­di­tional teddy bear as part of =
their toy
col­lec­tion whilst grow­ing up. The movie indus­try ha=
s recog­nised
the impor­tance of teddy bears and has included a new char­acÂ=
­ter in
Toy Story III a beau­ti­ful big pink teddy bear called Lotso.â=
€�

Shak­ila Ahmed, Trav­elodge Spokes­woman said: “We a=
re def­i­nitely a
nation obsessed with teddy bears. We have never had as many as 75,000
cud­dly bears left behind in Trav­elodge hotels before. Our hotel
staff have worked extremely hard in reunit­ing the bears with their
own­ers. Inter­est­ingly the own­ers have not just been=
 chil­dren, we
have had a large num­ber of fran­tic busi­ness­men and =
women call us
regard­ing their for­got­ten teddy bear.�

Other key find­ings from the research were:

- Over a quar­ter of adults 26% use a teddy bear hot water bot­tl=
e so
that they can have a warm bear hug to help them nod off.

- Four­teen per cent of par­ents sur­veyed said they had pas=
sed down
their favourite teddy bear to their chil­dren as a keepsake.

- Eight out of ten par­ents reported the first toy they brought their
child was a teddy bear

- 62% of par­ents said it is impor­tant for a child to grow up ow=
n­ing
and lov­ing a teddy bear as it helps them to develop a more car­i=
ng
nature.

–End–

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion please contact:

Shak­ila Ahmed

Trav­elodge

Notes to editor–

The research was con­ducted in July 2010 with 6,000 adults

via Travelodge — Press releases.

http://moronia.us/front/2010/08/study-25-of-british-men-travel-with-their-t=
eddy-bears/

 

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 On Jun 10, 3:54 am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:

Word has it that the late Field Marshall
Mongomery kept his teddy bear hidden during
his time at Sandhurst. (brit.mil.academy)

 

Neil Murray doesn't like to talk about what the senior boys did to him
at boarding school...