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Originally posted by FileNotFound
Not getting a kid a toy they want just makes you the stingy bastard of a parent in the eyes of the kid and they eventualy get the toy one way or another.
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Part a) is true but doesn't bother me. I'm not in business to make friends with the kids. Part of the lesson is that they don't get everything they won't and when they don't, it's not always for reasons they understand or agree with.
Part b) may be true, but then they've gotten it without parental approval and even if you can't prevent them from getting it, you can avoid helping them get it, and make sure they understand why you disapprove.
For the record I would just as soon not have Barbies around the house. (Partly for philosophical reasons, partly because I hate stepping on all the damned little pieces.) But Mrs. Dallas thinks it's harmless ("I had em when I was little"), so who am I to argue? (It should be noted that she did put her foot down at my proposed purchase of an Anna Kournikova action figure for myself.)