This stuff is following me. Even before the first post about it, I've been seeing it on TV shows and it's come up in conversation. I hope it doesn't mean that I am destined to taste it.

It looks like something one might have used to yank out a baby in the old days. Then again, that could just be a nightmare of mine.

Possibly, but this is obviously someone created for the parents, not the kids.

I'm too much of a germophobe to truly appreciate this.

Just adding to my last paragraph, that the reason this is more of an agenda driven toy than the average is because it is rather contrived. It's goes beyond pink for girls and blue for boys and strikes me as more of a plush fish toy with a kitten face ala the PETArds.

Awesome post! I had always wondered what rain had to do with salt. I guess we never had clumpy salt because we always had Morton's.

I guess I should explain the point I am making with the agenda here, since already, people are pinning me as being a right wing conservative when I don't even believe in party affiliations, nor do I live in the USA anymore.

First of all, I went to the web site but was distracted pretty quickly. However, one parent pointed out in the comment section that if you yourself cannot afford to live "green", then the kid is going to be confused and get the wrong message. I don't know or care how true that is, simply because I don't have, nor do I want ankle biters, but I can understand the concern.

There's also the idea that the whole message would be lost on a kid anyway, considering most kids have imaginations and turn doll houses into whatever they want them to be, thus my comment on building blocks. Those allow for more creativity. Maybe it's just me, but when I was a little girl, I used my doll house for storage and nothing more. I preferred building stuff and knocking it down with my Lego blocks and other blocks. A lot of little kids get a great toy and prefer to play with the box in came in. Not saying that justifies never buying your kid a toy, but a toy with a green agenda at the age kids are playing with dollhouses is either going to turn them into little eco bastards nagging their parents for a windmill, or be completely lost on them.

No one wants to be harrassed by their snot nosed kid, nor should they, to install solar panels, and after all that rambling, that's why I think this is a "toy with an agenda", more so than the average toy.

SweetTarts rock!

I was never big on dolls or stuffed animals. However, any unusual stuffed animal I see, I buy. Those I am big on. I am going to have to take a field trip to every Ikea in the area.

Oh, and Nolegy, that grotesque turn of phrase is a little more vulgar when my grandmother says it in Spanish. ;) I can't take all the credit for it.

Noelegy, I'm glad that made you laugh. Seriously, though, I don't get it. If I wanted anything of value after I was of working age, I had to work at a job outside the home, or do stuff around the house for my parents. Nothing was just handed to me. Gifts were for birthdays, Christmas, and academic achievement. I hope you get through to your husband, and that said 21 yr. old is a nice kid goes a long way. I was by no means a perfect child, nor were my parents perfect, but I appreciate the fact that they were so strict with me today.

I agree with Gauldar here. The picture is hideous no matter how you slice it as far as I am concerned, but to draw racist agendas from it is really a stretch. No where, in the history of man was it common to compare a black person to a Wookie or use Wookie as a racist slur.

Elagie, I get the point you are making, but if I had told my mom that I was an an unsaveable spot in a game, she might have been okay and waited, but if she didn't want me to wait, I would have had the respect to suck it up and turn the game off. If she turns it off in her house where she is presumably paying the bills and feeding me, then that's her right. He is 19 years old and has enough hair between his legs to either contribute or get out. And if he's not contributing, he has to follow his mother's rules.

I don't believe in smacking kids around for respect, but neither am I against spanking when it isn't taken to the level of abuse. A lot of kids and teens have lost all respect for their elders this past generation since the 80's, and it's disgusting to see. Quite frankly, taco boy needs a smack in the mouth and a shove out the door. His mom is entirely at fault for creating the problem by being a crap mother to begin with, but that doesn't mean I have any sympathy for him either.

I think most kids would be happier to get the building blocks and make their own house anyway. I know I would have been.

I hear ya, Morgan. My mom only whooped me three times when I was growing up. It was all I needed other than the crazy look in her eye when I pushed her too far.