We just had a birthday around here -- my daughter turned three
yesterday. Of course, the avalanche of toy catalogs and such started a
few weeks ago, touching off my annual snit about why girls' toys are so
ridiculously stupid.
Now, my girl is not especially a
girlie girl -- she likes pretty dresses, but prefers things that can be
thrown, hammered, splashed or stacked to the traditional girl toys of
pink fluffy dolls and long-maned horsies. When I pick her up at school,
all the little girls who are her age are generally playing some quiet,
interactive game and she's tearing around like a maniac, usually
covered in dirt from head to toe.
But I look for age-appropriate
toys that would reflect her interests, and it's a sea of pink this and
kitteny that. All the building and dinosaur toys are for boys -- a fact
I conveniently ignore now, but when she's a little older this will be a
problem.
Which is why a press release we got today cheered me right up.
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