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by cpkpad
3020 days ago
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I would have much the same feeling if I didn't have a child myself. There are many good toy stores around. Toys-R-Us just isn't one of them anymore. At some point between when I was a child and now, someone cannibalized that whole business for short-term profit, and that seems to have come due. Last time I was there, there were zero toys at Toys-R-Us I'd want to buy for my kid. That's not a commentary on socioeconomic status either; I'm pretty poor. But I can get high-quality educational toys elsewhere cheap. |
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Looking over these comments I see a lot of adults talking about buying toys for their children as adults and you are all missing the entire point.
The toys aren't for you. Toys do not exist for you to mold your children into whatever predestined vision you have for them. The toys the kids want are cheap and plastic and they excite their imagination. They look cheap and plastic to you because you're 30 years older and playing with $2,000 computers or $30,000 cars (yes, your cars are toys).
Toys are about giving a child property they can do whatever they want with. It's about treating them like they have a mind of their own and letting them explore things that you probably never even thought of. If your "toy buying decisions" are riddled with adult concepts like responsibility and educational value you are missing the point.
I'm not saying educational toys are bad, I'm saying kids know what educational toys are and what they want is action figures and video games and toy weapons. A store that is packed floor to ceiling with exactly those things is a _wonderland_ to a child.