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See, all parents, people who plan to be parents, people who think they might want to be parents, people who will ever be around parents and people who were, at one time, children need to read the latest Get Fuzzy cartoon.

I learned this lesson when I taught Sam to whistle with her raisin box. We don't buy the raisins in the little boxes any longer...

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I cracked up, too, thinking of DJ's extreme fondness for squeaky toys. :)

So true, so true. Many is the time I've thought to myself, "why did we want them to learn to walk/bang two things together/open things?"

Mom always said the same thing about any toy that involved noise-making that was given by non-clueful but caring folks on Christmas. The little police car that made realistic!siren sounds that my little brother chose to play with at 6 am; that sort of toy. :)

::falls over laughing::

We've always had a special category for electronic toys that make noises; they're called "noisytoys," and the rule has always been that they get played with in the sprog's room with the door shut, and not while mama and papa are sleeping. 'Course, we're fortunate to have and exceedingly well-behaved and polite little kid who is happy to obey rules like that.

I once attended and SCA event where the lady running the thing made the near-fatal error of giving every kid under 10 a plastic recorder. At opening court. Dear gods, that woman was almost lynched, some of those kids did not take a breath that was not filtered through the damn recorder all weekend! Waking up with a hangover to the sound of someone's small child trying to make the recorder create the loudest, highest possible note is a very unpleasant experience that justifies homicide.

Ah. The toy that one gives the child whose parents one dislikes. :D

The first time a (childless) friend did something like that around Bigglest (I think he was trying to teach him to make some annoying noise,) I turned to him and said, "I want you to understand something. If he starts doing that on a regular basis, I will do whatever I have to do to unteach him. Then I will do whatever I have to do TO YOU to make sure I don't have to unteach him twice." It took the friend a minute to unwind what I'd said, but then he stopped ... rather abruptly. *evil grin*

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