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• Strollerderby's Top Ten Toys That Suck

  We've all had them. Sometimes we don't even know how they get into the house, but we've all had them. Evil vengeful grandparents? Spontaneous manifestation? It's hard to say where they come from, really, but you all know what I'm talking about: toys that suck.  So while over at MomLogic they got all whiny about Furbies and Tamagotchi and anything that pees, we here at the Derby have our own ideas about which toys suck. And so I bring you the Strollerderby Top Ten:   Read More... Posted Nov 26 2007, 02:08 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: christmas, toys, Sea Monkeys, Aquasaurs, toys that suck

• How Did We Survive? Unsafe Toys From Our Childhood

  I'm pretty sure that if the rules we impose over the toys our kids play with were imposed on the toys we played with when we were little, we would have been playing wit nothing but rocks. Wait. Scratch that. Not rocks. They're, you know, hard. Uh, cotton balls! Yeah. Nice, soft cotton balls. Wait, they're chokable aren't they? Never mind the cotton balls. What about ... uh ... blocks of wood? (splinters. nope.) Um...what, then? Read More... Posted Aug 22 2007, 10:34 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: toys, safety, the poop, easy-bake oven, retro toys, Sea Monkeys