Visit the toy aisles today and you will see dazzling purple and pink displays dappled with sparkles – and decidedly darker aisles dappled with weapons. The difference between “boy” toys and “girl” toys seems never to have been more obvious – or more ludicrous. There is the “Red Giant Slash” action figure from the Fisher-Price [...]
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Many of my childhood memories involve playing outside: crunching and jumping through leaves in fall, sledding and making snowmen in winter, hunting for 4 leaf-clovers in spring and curling dandelion stems in summer. (Just peel the dandelion stems into strips, drop them in water, and watch how they curl into incredible curly-cues. Very fun.) Time [...] LEGOs are great. You can build, create, change, rebuild and recreate endlessly. LEGOs have been around for a long time. In fact, a master carpenter in Denmark started the company in 1932 with wooden toys. Over the years, the company developed the system of interlocking bricks now used worldwide. Check out the company timeline. According [...] A friend of mine returned from the grocery store the other day and was shocked to see the bag of apples she had picked up were actually, Disney apples. Arrrgh! This frustrated my friend, who is not a big fan of Disney and is conscious of media influences on her kids’ lives. “I can’t even [...] |
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