Comments on: independence day http://www.therealmalingering.com/2006/12/11/independence-day/ the world as it exists Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Gerry http://www.therealmalingering.com/2006/12/11/independence-day/#comment-1639 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:10:31 +0000 http://www.therealmalingering.com/2006/12/11/independence-day/#comment-1639 At 51 years of age, I grew up playing in fields, scaring my mother to death because I would roam around all day without telling her where I was at. I made kites, caught snakes, lizards, frog, and tadpoles. I explored the world around me.While I can't say that had NO mass prouced toys, I assure you, I quickly lost interest in them.My family didn't even have a television before my 13th birthday had passed. I read books to the point that at 11 years old I had read MacBeth by Shakespeare, among other things...and not the Reader's Digest version, either...I still hve the volume. The world today is vastly diferent One can lmost not get by without computers, but that doesn't mean we all have to be automatons. Sounds like I hit a nerve with you...feeling a bit defensive are we? At 51 years of age, I grew up playing in fields, scaring my mother to death because I would roam around all day without telling her where I was at. I made kites, caught snakes, lizards, frog, and tadpoles. I explored the world around me.While I can’t say that had NO mass prouced toys, I assure you, I quickly lost interest in them.My family didn’t even have a television before my 13th birthday had passed. I read books to the point that at 11 years old I had read MacBeth by Shakespeare, among other things…and not the Reader’s Digest version, either…I still hve the volume. The world today is vastly diferent One can lmost not get by without computers, but that doesn’t mean we all have to be automatons. Sounds like I hit a nerve with you…feeling a bit defensive are we?

]]> by: K http://www.therealmalingering.com/2006/12/11/independence-day/#comment-1638 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:34:15 +0000 http://www.therealmalingering.com/2006/12/11/independence-day/#comment-1638 Just a question... In some of your entries, you complain about certain kids being dressed in styles that are far too mature or sexy for their age. But now we have photos of little girls who are actually doing something age-appropriate: playing with dolls. So why are you picking on them? I'd much rather have my kids playing with dolls instead of looking like mini-whores on the streets. And Gerry, from looking at what you wrote, can you honestly say that you didn't grow up playing with "assembly line toys"? That sounded rather self-righteous coming from a person who's using a computer (which was probably mass-produced in an assembly line somewhere in China). Just a question…

In some of your entries, you complain about certain kids being dressed in styles that are far too mature or sexy for their age. But now we have photos of little girls who are actually doing something age-appropriate: playing with dolls. So why are you picking on them? I’d much rather have my kids playing with dolls instead of looking like mini-whores on the streets.

And Gerry, from looking at what you wrote, can you honestly say that you didn’t grow up playing with “assembly line toys”? That sounded rather self-righteous coming from a person who’s using a computer (which was probably mass-produced in an assembly line somewhere in China).

]]> by: Gerry http://www.therealmalingering.com/2006/12/11/independence-day/#comment-1633 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:41:24 +0000 http://www.therealmalingering.com/2006/12/11/independence-day/#comment-1633 Could the anger be that we do not like having the fact that we have become a very bland, homogeneous, rubber stamp society reflected in what we have directed our children towards? That we have stolen their innocence, their wonder, and above all, their imaginations and replaced it with assembly line toys and mindless acceptance of being like everyone else? Could the anger be that we do not like having the fact that we have become a very bland, homogeneous, rubber stamp society reflected in what we have directed our children towards? That we have stolen their innocence, their wonder, and above all, their imaginations and replaced it with assembly line toys and mindless acceptance of being like everyone else?

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