While I certainly understand a youngster's fascination with body functions (although for many, this fascination stays well into adulthood... not that there's anything wrong with that), I don't understand the continued stereotypical marketing, especially in 2008!
I didn't understand this "toy" doll the first time around, and I'm still somewhat perplexed at the intrigue of a doll that "goes".
Baby Alive by Hasbro first came out in 1973 and the premise of this fun doll - you feed her, she says, "Sniff sniff... I made a stinky!", and then expels the food. As a former little girl, why does anyone think we should want to clean poopy diapers when we're not that far removed from being in them? Women will have many years of diaper changing ahead of them, do they really need a head start?
And this is such a popular toy, Mattel has its own version - Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Gotta Go Doll - which comes with "her very own bathroom playset"... YAY!!(not)
We'll put it right next to her play kitchen set, and "toy" vacuum cleaner.... where's my Big Wheel, I'm outta here...
What do you think? Am I over thinking this? Do I need to play with a baby that 'goes' to realize what I'm missing?
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I had a baby alive when I was 8. I loved that doll until it was stolen. Of course it did say the things they say today, I think it only said Mama.
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