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Today I was struck by how much time young kids spend playing with car and truck toys. (kbin.social)
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Today I was struck by how much time young kids spend playing with car and truck toys.

If we want to move towards walkable cities, public transit, and micromobility it may be a good idea to stop indoctrinating people at the age of 1 that cars and trucks are fun.

Of course they're natural shapes for toys. Extremely simple and stable, but slightly more dynamic then a literal wooden block... but it's not like they're the only things with that property.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You sound like no fun.

My mom wouldn’t let me have GI Joes or toy guns, so I had to find things to turn into toy guns. Your kids will turn blocks into toy cars.

Let kids be kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@deegeese There is a rather large difference between "not pushing things on them unprompted" and "disallowing them from having things they're asking for". 1 year olds in particular aren't asking for any specific kinds of toys.

There is also a rather large difference between advocating for changing something as a society, and doing something just to your own kids that will make them different from other kids.