Dix Hills Mom Creates New Line of Hindu Dolls For Kids
Amanda Ealla, a mom from Long Island recently created a line of Ish Hindu dolls. She wanted her sons to have dolls that represented their culture, and after immediate success, she plans to add six more Hindu dolls to the line and even expand to dolls from other cultures. Newsday caught wind of this amazing story and interviewed AGP therapist, Nita Batta, on why representation matters.
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As an Indian-American mother and therapist who specializes in parenting, Nita shares how important it is for children to have dolls that look like them. “Seeing things like this on the market is fabulous,” says Nita Batta, an Indian-American social worker with the Manhattan-based A Good Place Therapy and mother of two children, ages 11 and 8. “Being raised Indian-American, I didn’t have access to them growing up. It brings a positive sense of identity.”
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