You've seen the shopping carts overladen with blister packs of Chinese plastic wheeled violently about by fleshy females.  Screeching urchins direct the careening cart from aisle to aisle, toy to toy, aghast at the excitement of it all and unbeknown to the horrors that will be implanted into them for the rest of their lives.

Blister packed toys have taken on a sinister and degrading quality ever since the production line concept took effect.  The dazzling array of toys to choose from made possible by the efficiency of numbers empowers a dangerous connection between business marketing and your child. Take a look at any toy and convince yourself that envy, sloth, gluttony, wrath, pride, lust, or greed are not the principle components.

The packaging convinces you otherwise, however, and makes the toy seem so appropriate for the child's "age level."  Parents living a life of quiet or furious desperation mistakenly trust the toy making adeptness of others from a standpoint of convenience. Questioning the connection between child and toy never arises. The bond of supervision and guidance between parent and child has been broken.

Important questions concerning a children's toy, its longevity, appropriateness, or overall value are dwarfed by the sheer quantities that can be had for very few dollars or for the mere sensation of "having it all." A Snoop Dog doll (named after a rapper who glorifies drugs, murder, and degrades women) that breaks in a month matter little if it costs $2.87 after a "Door Busting Markdown" special, especially when a Barbie Doll, Back Street Boys doll, or Britney Spears doll are equal and quick replacements. The sham of cheapness and convenience hide the lack of quality and debauchery of toys.

The better part of toys, their creative, learning, meaningful, and fun aspects have been discarded by the progression of modern materialism. The lack of creativity involving an assembly wrought toy is obvious and the learning potential of the toy is often not in line with the child's better and more meaningful development. Hence the fun of toys is quickly undermined, especially when among a sea of toys the sense of having everything leads to having no toy in particular.

Thus, children's future living habits are muddled and attention spans are wrecked to a flickering immediacy.  Toys do mean something and affect a child in the most fundamental ways.  Toys are an aspect of play that the child engages in to test and set the stage for their adulthood.

The convenience and lack of value so prevalent in today's toys leads the child to eventually litter the plastic wrappers off cigarette packs — a minor injustice to be sure but one that sets the tone for adulthood like stripping the clothing wrappers off multiple females, not unlike the old game of musical chairs but in the new modern form of musical beds and "consensual" sex.

Piles of toys precariously balanced in replacement of childhood friends lead to a secluded life of accumulation where, in the end, firemen battle past towering heaps of garbage, empty tomato sauce cans, and 30 years worth of junk mail to retrieve your stinking carcass.

A doll can be made with a block of wood wrapped in cloth and the yo-yo is a source of endless delight which, incidentally, is easily made with simple materials. The latter is a valuable learning experience for both you and your child, creatively fun and informative.