Learning Toys

What do our children play with nowadays? Do our children learn anything from these toys?  Time to start shopping for the perfect gift. I looked up the top-10 selling items at Walmart the other day just to check it out.

Top 10 selling toys at Wal-Mart

1. Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition--Well, they'll definitely learn the importance of money. The object of this game is to end up with all the money, property, and resources while everybody else goes home broke--whoops, by the end of the game, they don't have a home to go to.

2. EyeClops Night Vision Infrared Stealth Goggles--Not very educational, but harmless. The perfect gift for that budding little voyeur, burglar, snipper...

3. NERF N-STRIKE Vulcan - Kids love to shoot. In a world created to be the perfect landscape for NERF pandemonium, players can wreak havoc and perfect their blasting skills or challenge friends to clashes with both single and multi-player game modes. With the brand new custom NERF blaster, players can then take the action outside as their controller transforms to fire actual NERF darts."

4. Baby Alive Learns to Potty (Hasbro)-- The most useful learning toy so far. Enough guy stuff; how about something for our little princesses?

5. Fisher Price Kid Tough Portable DVD Player Pink and Accessory Kit—

6. Vtech V.Motion Active Learning System –

7. Fisher-Price Elmo Live-- The worse toy ever!  This Muppet been showing signs of severe emotional stress for years; he's made specific and general death threats on at least two separate occasions.

8. Littlest Pet Shop VIP Cat (Hasbro)--Cute, but why not a real flesh and blood feline?

9. Darth Maul with Collector Coin: Star Wars Saga Legends-- I guess you could consider this a science toy . Can a kid ever own enough psychopathic killer dolls? And a Collector Coin, to boot!

10. Star Wars The Clone Wars Action Figures-See # 9. BTW, every single one these toys are manufactured in China; only the board pieces on the Monopoly game are made in the USA.