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Babes in Toyland
 Among the many promises one hears people making both in advance of having children and afterwards, when it is much too late, is that they will never let their homes become overrun with toys and the cloying nonsense of kiddiness.
Once, more than once, I spoke those vows myself. But now there's been a strange sea change and I swear I'm not suffering the after effects of too much wine or Stockholm Syndrome. I love toys and I love seeing Felix playing with them (like his mother, he will play with anything).
Of course there's something fascinating, as I have realized a couple of times since Felix was born, with figuring out why people choose certain things for kids. The people in Felix's life have remarkable taste, for the most part. One person's kids had great success with the Mozart Cube, which turned out to be a source of incredible horror to some other parents spied it in my living room. The latter set of parents explain carefully at every opportunity the importance of acquiring only silent toys and how only sadists would give noisy things to children. I couldn't bring myself to tell them that my parents found this spectacularly Vegas-esque snake for my kid. The whole thing is like some kind of crazed slot machine, but as long as the On/Off switch works, or the batteries can be extracted, I feel confident that I won't need to investigate alternative migraine prescriptions.
And all of this isn't just for Felix. I play with histoys on my own now, when I'm on the phone, when I'm thinking. Sometimes I reach into my coat pocket and am so grateful to find a little something lingering in there. I can't keep my hands off this guy who makes a great "clacky" sound, and these puzzles hypnotize.
People complain so much about playthings and the threat they pose to adult tastes and sensibilities, and I'm certain they have a point, but there is also a wealth of beauty and idle amusement that I am happy to have access to.
What does this gorgeous felt ball do (besides taunting the dog- not everything exists to thrill the dog)? Nothing. It simply is there to interest and dazzle, and right now when I wish I could shed the skin of responsibility a little bit, that is glorious.
posted by Elise at 7:24 PM
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