A Toddler Tee That Talks To A Child's Heart

He is producing fun tee shirts for toddlers and small children with a positive message. The artist Charlie Cook wants to do more for children than decorate cute clothes. He wants to surround children visually with kind and loving words. End Quote

"Words are the most powerful force there has ever been". Roy Williams,Advertising Guru

Texarkana, TX-Texarkana, AR (1888PressRelease) October 29, 2013 - Artist Charlie Cook is experimenting with combining his fun designs with positive words on kid's tee shirts. Research by Dr. Masaru Emoto of Japan demonstrates that words alone can change inanimate objects. Can words alone encourage or even change a child's heart?

Louise Hay, a well-respected healer of illnesses, uses positive affirmations to heal. She believes that negative words and criticism, especially in early life, can produce guilt and other destructive emotions that can cause disease.

An early experiment of Dr. Emoto's consisted of putting cooked rice into three jars . On one jar he taped the words "thank you" and on another he taped "you fool". He put nothing on the third jar. Each day school children spoke to the two labeled jars of rice, repeating to each one, the words on its label. They ignored the third jar. At the end of thirty days the rice in the "you fool" jar was brown and moldy. So was the rice in the jar which had been ignored. But the rice in the jar labeled "thank you" remained white and fresh!

Mr. Cook's ten-year-old grandson, Gabriel repeated the experiment and got the similar results.

Kristen Cook Tyler, Mr. Cook's designer daughter, sometimes sells her embroidery designs at a New York textile design show. She invited her father to exhibit with her and display some children's style art at the show. Much to his pleasure, buyers hovered around his display. Some buyers remarked that they could see influences of his "fine art" background. They seemed to appreciate this and his loose style in contrast to computer- generated art.

At the NY design show, Charlie sold to big names like The Company Store, Carters, Pottery Barn and other companies with child products. He enjoyed this faze of his work. Now he is incorporating positive words with his playfully sophisticated art on tee shirts for toddlers and small children. Charlie wants to do more for children than decorate cute clothes. Good parents everywhere have noticed the calming power of kind and loving words to influence a child's behavior. From looking at the results of research and also the writings of child development specialists, Mr. Cook has concluded that children need to be surrounded by positive and loving words. These are gifts every parent can give a child to help insure good self-esteem and happiness. Charlie wants to remind families of this in a visual way.

Here are the words he's put on his shirts for children to wear and hopefully, hear repeated by caregivers:

• Precious (Bird)
• Smile (Caterpillar)
• Amazing (Robot)
• Sunshine (Cat)
• Awesome (Motorcycle)
• Wonderful (Boat)
• Lovebug (Ladybug)
• Helper (Tractor)
• Star (Bike)
• Sweet (Duckling)

Texas artist Charlie Cook studied art at Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, University of Southern California and Instituto Allende in Mexico. After years of working at commercial art , for the past couple decades he has focused on painting and serigraphs of landscapes, animals and figures.

See his fun designs at http://lovebugtees.com/

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Charlie Cook
(903) 794-5948
charliecook ( @ ) lovebugtees dot com

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