Anonymous wrote:Toy shortage would be tremendous for this country.

Get kids outside, learning how to make their own play for once. Expensive toy does not always = more fun.

American kids have so many toys and their rooms are a constant mess. It would be good if they got less toys.

Anonymous wrote:If it happens, and then kids play outside more or play inside creatively with non-electronic toys, then great.

If the result instead is more electronic game playing and more screen time, then not so great.

Toy shortages are not going to push kids into playing outside more. Parents need to step in and change the screen time culture in their homes and neighborhoods.

If it happens, and then kids play outside more or play inside creatively with non-electronic toys, then great.

If the result instead is more electronic game playing and more screen time, then not so great.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the very, very least of my worries.

“Terrible memories” of celebrating your kid’s birthday during Covid? Are you for real? I have terrible memories of all the suffering of people whose loved ones died, including a coworker whose entire immediate family died of Covid: parents and 2 sisters.

Sorry OP, something about the tone of your post has clearly rubbed me the wrong way. I’m pretty sure all of our kids are going to be just fine with less toys. Probably better off really.

Yeah, that was absurdly melodramatic.

Right? One of my favorite memories of covid time is a holiday thing I improvise that we still use 5 years later!

Hula hoop

Anonymous wrote:Toy shortage would be tremendous for this country.

Get kids outside, learning how to make their own play for once. Expensive toy does not always = more fun.

OP's main example was a scooter for playing outside, dingo.

Am I the only one thinking this might bring overconsumption down in America? I mean, it will depress the economy, true, but this obsession with goods from China needs to stop, right?

This might be the one good thing about this terrible economy. My kid reads the news and understands his toys are part of the global supply chain, so he seeing blame me for minimal toys under the tree

Great. Sure most kids have enough toys.
Buy books
Go outside
Play board games

Toy shortage would be tremendous for this country.

Get kids outside, learning how to make their own play for once. Expensive toy does not always = more fun.

Anonymous wrote:This is the very, very least of my worries.

“Terrible memories” of celebrating your kid’s birthday during Covid? Are you for real? I have terrible memories of all the suffering of people whose loved ones died, including a coworker whose entire immediate family died of Covid: parents and 2 sisters.

Sorry OP, something about the tone of your post has clearly rubbed me the wrong way. I’m pretty sure all of our kids are going to be just fine with less toys. Probably better off really.

Yeah, that was absurdly melodramatic.

Anonymous wrote:Nope. A toy shortage would not be the worst thing for our cluttered household.

+1,000,000

Anonymous wrote:This is the very, very least of my worries.

“Terrible memories” of celebrating your kid’s birthday during Covid? Are you for real? I have terrible memories of all the suffering of people whose loved ones died, including a coworker whose entire immediate family died of Covid: parents and 2 sisters.

Sorry OP, something about the tone of your post has clearly rubbed me the wrong way. I’m pretty sure all of our kids are going to be just fine with less toys. Probably better off really.

Yes, OP and I also have terrible memories of my best friend’s parents dying seemingly out of nowhere, my FIL with dementia getting covid in memory care and stopping eating and none of us being allowed to go in, and on and on.

But this thread isn’t about “what’s the worst thing that happened to you during the pandemic.”

It’s about something now that I can control.

Moreover, it is allowed and ok and perhaps shows complexity of thought and emotion that I can remember family tragedies at the same time and moment that I can have terrible memories of a child’s birthday disappointment. Do you never have more than one thought and feeling at a time?! Are your memories and feelings the only right way to exist?

I bought LOL dolls, for what it’s worth. They are small and plastic-y and definitely not made in the USA and I think that they’ll go perfectly with whatever else DD is into in 7 months.

Anonymous wrote:Nope. A toy shortage would not be the worst thing for our
cluttered household.

+100

My DCs would probably be happy with Robucks (or whatever Roblox bucks are called)