Every parent loves to get their kids toys and likes watching them play with them. Be it a simple ball to throw around to a letter learning – talking caterpillar. What every parent always forgets when they get these toys for them is that “some assembly” turns into nightmarish hours spent trying to get these stupid things together while the kids are wining that they want to play with it.
As kids, we don’t understand that not everything is ready right out of the box. I think that’s why Easy Mac was invented, why does it take so long to make something, I wanted it 5 minutes ago. It seems like our society of wanting everything right away is spilling over into childhood. Remember getting Lego sets and knowing that it would take some time to put it all together? Or waiting for the water to boil for mac and cheese? Or watching the grass grow and paint dry?
The days of patience are behind us, everything is now now now! Which brings me to the topic of this post. In order to stop your kid from wining, which in large part is parenthood in general, you need to be quick at putting complicated plastic things together. I remember a toy from Chik-fil-A that was more complicated than origami. It was supposed to be a bee, ooo – I spelled those correctly Mom!, and the stupid thing took 35 minutes to put together! It comes in a kids meal but requires the understanding of aeroelastic flutter and schlierin photography, both topics which I learned about today actually.
Another thing we have run into with going through both kids birthdays recently are the toys that are put together come in packages that require the knowledge of breaking into safety boxes. Who designs these things? I’m guessing it’s someone that doesn’t have kids and just like to torment the general population.
Mad Scientist with crazy white hair and lab coat thinks while designing packaging for a ruler: “I’m going to put these twist tie things at 3 different points along the ruler to keep it in place, then put it in the plastic that requires an angle grinder to get through! Haha, those imbeciles will never penetrate my fortress of security!!”
Parent’s thoughts that buys said ruler for child: “Why the @#$! did I buy this piece of *&^%? Whoever designed this packaging needs a severe beating.”
Too bad it’s not socially acceptable to give beatings to people that really need them. The world would be a better place if it was.
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