I'd been so tickled that we'd escaped the Chinese commie poison toy assault. And then lo, today we find out that they dosed my kid Lucas's Aquadots -- which he bought with birthday money from his grandmother -- with a date rape drug. Or something to that effect. They've been recalled.
Roofies for your three-year-old! All hail globalization! If I'm going to give poison toys to my chirren, I want them to be American-made poison toys, dadgummit!
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My boy's getting wooden blocks to play with. Nice wooden blocks, and that's it!
I don't have that many little kids on my Christmas list any more, but this looks like a really good year to go back to the venerable mantra, "books for everyone." By the way, our 8-yr.-old niece, who is as totally addicted to flashy plastic toys as any kid, still enthuses over the books from the "Borrowers" series (Mary Norton) that we got her last year. Asks for more. So a hearty razzberry to the stupid plastic toys.
Books, and freakin' hippie organic WOOD toys and rag dolls. If they complain, tell them to go play with the neighbor's poisonous toys. I can't wait to be a mother. ;)
Just as long as Legos and Lincoln Logs haven't been recalled. At least let the kids have SOMETHING to play with.
For the most part, my little siglets played with insanely crunchy stuff, including the wooden blocks that my brother in law made for them. He's a cabinet maker/tool and die maker, so the blocks were things of beauty. And many of the toys were durable old ones, bought at garage sales for a dollar or two.
However. I have a massive action figure collection, and our youngest spent hours and hours in educational and imaginative ecstasy, playing with these garish plastic toys. One of my favorite moments was finding Black Bolt, leader of the Inhumans, tied to the stair rail with twine. A pterodactyl was eating his liver. "He's Prometheus, Mommy," the Nipper explained. "He stole fire and gave it to the humans, and now Zeus is punishing him."
Another favorite moment was overhearing a villain shouting at Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), "Get back, you old ambassador, you! You're under arrest for illegal democracy!" Out of the mouths of babes . . . .
The plastic was well worth it.
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