Why do I loathe all of the toys that my children love the most?

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Why do I loathe all of the toys that my children love the most?
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💬 How is it that I can make someone who is 50% my DNA and 50% that of my partner – both of us people of impeccable taste – raised a child who pines for this garbage? 🧸 Toys these days are awful, writes MarianneLevy

I would do anything for my children; I would literally die for them, and yet I will not buy them Fluffie Stuffiez. And already, I know they’ll want them. Fluffie Stuffiez are cute and bright and they will be everywhere; I know, too, that the more my children sense my disgust, the more alluring these horrors will become.

“Love your body” I say, even as I consider purchasing a Sparkle Girlz Fantasy doll, whose eyes make up most of her head and whose frail limbs make Barbie’s look flabby. “We won’t use any more plastic” I intone, grimly trying to construct a birthday list that doesn’t include Lego. “Could we buy a water squirter that isn’t reminiscent of an AK47?” No, obviously not.

She stares into the middle distance, remembering. “We once got back from a night out, boys in bed asleep, everything was peaceful, the babysitter said all was fine. But when we went to bed we found the bullets under our pillows.”

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