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Disturbing
Oct. 9th, 2007 10:15 amGet those girls shopping early!
One of my most favorite things when I was a kid was the kid-sized grocery store at the Boston Children's Museum (I liked that almost as much as 'Grandmother's Attic'). You could use fake money (cold hard paper and coins) to purchase fake fruit and canned foods and put it in your small fisher price sized cart. I remember that with all of the kids in there the money kind of went missing and there was never enough to go around for all to play with. You kind of had to wait patiently until you were up next in line to "shop" with it.
Things change and all, and if adults are using plastic most of the time it stands to reason that when kids pay they'll use it too. Still, perhaps Mattel could have used this as a good way to encourage budgeting, rather than using the 'you never run out of money' method. I have to wonder if kids would have any less fun (knowing me as a kid, I would have loved the challenge of having to only pick out those special things from the available options).
One of my most favorite things when I was a kid was the kid-sized grocery store at the Boston Children's Museum (I liked that almost as much as 'Grandmother's Attic'). You could use fake money (cold hard paper and coins) to purchase fake fruit and canned foods and put it in your small fisher price sized cart. I remember that with all of the kids in there the money kind of went missing and there was never enough to go around for all to play with. You kind of had to wait patiently until you were up next in line to "shop" with it.
Things change and all, and if adults are using plastic most of the time it stands to reason that when kids pay they'll use it too. Still, perhaps Mattel could have used this as a good way to encourage budgeting, rather than using the 'you never run out of money' method. I have to wonder if kids would have any less fun (knowing me as a kid, I would have loved the challenge of having to only pick out those special things from the available options).
