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When Kids Toys are Dirty - And We're Not Talking Mud

Posted by JeanneSager

Why do they call it being childish when you figure out how to make your kid's toys say naughty words? You don't REALLY want a child doing it.

OK, so it's immature. But Ms. Stick up Your You Know What, it's kind of hilarious. Right? Right?

If you can ignore the hyper-annoying Billy Mays-style excitement of the guy from Jeepers Media ( just tune out whenever he's talking), his toy test of the Fisher Price baby grand piano has fodder for plenty of adult fun. Press the keys in the proper order, and they play out the basic musical notes - Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So . . . and so on. Play them in fast succession in the wrong order and Fa, Me sounds rather like . . . something you did to END UP WITH a bunch of kids' toys lying around your house.

He can't be the only one out there doing this. I clearly remember a Christmas gift exchange for two-year-olds where the fathers delighted in the alphabet toy, because pressing "S" followed quickly by "X" spit out a sound rather like . . . another word for what you do to end up with a bunch of kids' toys lying around your house.

Some parents get indignant with the toymakers over these kinds of things, but frankly, grown men will act like little boys. And grown women will act like little girls. We're going to have our own fun with our kids toys. And if we can't, please, please, send us back some pre-pregnancy senses of humor, stat.

What have you discovered playing with our kids' toys?

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Comments

 

Twyla said:

Thanks for the laugh. I have had many fun nights entertaining myself and my husband with our kids' toys. We have to keep some humor in our lives. The kids will be fine! Lighten up. While people are so busy making a padded existence for their children they are neglecting their children. Play, have fun, learn things, and let it go!

March 17, 2009 1:23 PM
 

elohveeee12 said:

my brothers and sisters dont have kids, and therefore have fun playing with my daughters toys. they find it funny to leave the tickle me ernie in a bent over position. or play hangman on her aqua doodle... the phrase my (older) brother came up with was "will work for crack"

i cant think of anything else at the moment, though i am sure there are a few more, at least.

March 17, 2009 11:52 PM
 

Miriam Axel-Lute said:

Our friends had a caterpiller with the letters of the alphabet on its legs and it would say the sounds of the letters when pushed.

If you tried to spell certain dirty words, it wouldn't do it and would say "Ooh that tickles." instead. No kidding.

March 18, 2009 9:32 AM
 

Misty said:

To Miriam Axel-Lute:

The toy was called "Alphabug." And the story is totally true! We tried to make is say all sorts of no-no words, but it caught on and wouldn't let us. Those people at Leap Frog are on to us!

March 18, 2009 5:15 PM

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Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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