Mini Rant: Toys and Lullabies
So since this is my nephew's first Christmas, my mom is going far out this holiday. More far out than usual, which is highly unusual, considering that her usual holiday persona is that of the Grinch. "Everybody can only have one present this year!" "I'm doing all of my Christmas shopping in September, so be ready!" "Three gifts and that's it!" Of course, she never sticks by these, and if there are more than 1-3 gifts on our lists, she'll try her best to find them, but she never over-exceeds to get our giftlist out of us if we never mention it. This year, when I only asked her for four gifts (which only totalled around $50 bucks; they were all CDs), she kept asking me, "Is that all? Seriously???" but in a desperate manner, as if she was begging me to ask her for more. All I said to her was that the only other thing that I wanted was a Palm Centro, and since it was too late to order one from the website (because I need an unlocked model), it didn't matter and I'd settle for the gifts I had already asked her. She got annoyed, and told me to give her another gift list. I never did.
Anyway, that's besides the rant. My mom went to Toys R' Us and bought Vi-Vi some toys, and my brother was playing around with them.
First rant: the toys in general. It's just so wierd and stupid how children are so entertained by chunks of (faulty) assembled plastic. I remember in the old days, kids only had wooden trucks and rag dolls, and that was all you had to go by. No. Kids nowadays have mini-robotic dinosaurs with built-in missile action. And, all of them are basically the same. They sing and light up, and to add a educational feature to not make those obsessive parents mad that there children aren't getting exposed enough at the age of six months, they count and sing the ABCs. Well shit. I remember back when I was a toddler, back in '89 or whatever, we didn't even have shit like that. My parents just got us blocks, dolls, and trains. That was it.
Second rant: lullabies and countin' 123s and ABCs. All I can say is, what the hell? Whatever happened to parents teaching their kids the numerical rhymes, the ABCs, and nursery rhymes and lullabies? This Cookie Shape Surprise™ thing by Fisher Price® that my mom got for my nephew does everything: it lights up, it says stuff, it sings the ABCs, counts, AND sings a lullaby or two. Well, that's all well and good, for some lazy ass parents who can't comp the time to teach their kids with their own voice. And with the lullaby CDs - what the hell?! Whatever happened to mothers lulling their babies to sleep with their own voices?! Now, they just pop a CD in the stereo in the nursery, and they go on their way, leaving their baby to grow accustomed to a woman's voice that is not their mother's. The baby is suppose to grow accustomed to your voice, not some other ladies' voice. Now, when your child is crying, and you don't have that CD, your going to be stressing away, pissing off everybody in the lobby because you can't get your child to shut up with your own voice! Parents areeither just too lazy, or "preoccupied with their careers". Well, if you want to be successful in your career that badly, then you should know that a child (without a nanny), will only stand in the way of your success, so don't have kids if you can't even talk/sing to them with your own voice!