We spent a happy hour today in a really good toy shop (a dying breed in light of certain multinational conglomerates that seem to sell nothing but cheap plastic stuff that say stupid things in American accents.)
I have a bit of a conflicting view about toys. On the one hand, I think most toys are ridiculously expensive, bad quality and really irritating (see comments above), and that kids generally have way too much stuff, encouraging them to leap from one thing to another without actually focusing on anything and not taking care of any of it. I generally think that parents (or grandparents) often choose quantity over quality, and in some case do it to appease fear, guilt, anxiety, inadequacy, jealousy or other parental emotions (mostly unacknowledged ones). Or, worse, because they don't how how to say no. I generally think that young kids, in particular, are often happier with a cardboard box and a pencil than with the latest greatest singing, dinging, blinging thing.
Having said that, there ARE some really cool toys out there, some of which I wish had been around when I was a kid, and some of which I might very well spend a ridiculous amount of money on "for Emmy" so that I can have a turn with them, too. Maybe I'll just have to "put them on my Christmas list."
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