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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]does any of you actually get any toys as gifts at all?  Our hour is full of toys given to us as gifts and most of them tend to be the despised battery operated plastic type.  so, what do you actually do to prevent people from giving you these "wrong" toys as gifts?  Are you actually tacky enough to tell people, your elderly grandparents, your best friends, your nanny, etc that their choice in toys is just hmm. inferior?  That they should not ever give you toys made in China or having batteries, or made of plastic, etc?

It's funny, but my aunt actually purchased DS a nice truck set by the toy company based in Germany, the toys are made in Germany... from the good old plastic.  Oh my!  And she was so proud the toys were not made in China!  I should probably go run to the nearest Home-depot and get started on the solid wood playset right away and go sew some organic cotton ragdolls stuffed with the premium quiality fair trade ingredients.

Yes, we can make choices to avoid certain products and market for the "pure" organic products is out there, but unless you are a total ass to people around you, you will not be able to shield your kid from such toys.

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I posted before and said that I avoid battery-operated toys but don't mind plastic. The kids' not-so-elderly grandparents (*my* grandparents are long dead) know of this preference and for the most part respect it, although not entirely. Others do give us battery-operated presents, although we cut down on that as well by not hosting birthday parties when the kids are little, so we get fewer gifts in general. When possible, I just don't put batteries in the toy -- for example, grandparents gave DS a car ramp that makes an annoying noise when a car goes down it. I didn't put batteries it, DS loves it as a ramp and makes his own sound effects, everyone is happy.[/quote]

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