Toys 'R' Us Launches Hot Toy Reservation Service: Are We Spoiling Kids Too Much?

There's been cases when parents buy a new-fangled toy for going down slopes of snow or grass, but kid is content using the cardboard box it came in instead, seen in MAD magazine years ago.

I know. My child did this with the box from his toy slide when he was about 2. I think it's once kids are able to verbalise what it is they 'want' that things start going wrong.

The Parent[s] may have "Inflated Expectations" too.
Choose between Need & Want better.

spoiled or neglected, which is better?

Neither is better. A 'boundary' somewhere in the middle would do the trick.

balance wants & needs.

Both could be congruent in this case.

Those are not mutually exclusive you know, a child can suffer emotional neglect and malnutricion, ánd get a new toy or gadget every other day.

In old man voice. we used to just hit each other with rocks back in my day. oppositional defiance disorder.
Whoop yo ass in public disorder. Just saying 9 year olds don't need iPhones.

With Autism/Asperger's coming out of the woodwork, things may tend to get more ODD.

My son has Aspergers, but I don't see the connection here... Sorry. ???

Wait until s/he gets older, didn't state age or socialabitilty, I'm 51 & (likely) have it.

Over the last decade, the incidence of schoolchildren being diagnosed with Autism (Aspies being a [potentially] highly functional type) has gone up at least 60%. Recent Psychology from Europe has produced an parameter to redefine the "Mind Blindness" better; Caetextia = Context Blindeness. Some other studies have shown that ANYBODY under stress can exhibit such behavior, so this may be the start of an Epidemic of Folks 'misunderstanding' each other, like we have enough of that already.

"The biggest trouble with communication is the illusion that it actually occurred" George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize, Literature (likely suspect, as Mark Twain, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein & Bill Gates are).

http://blog.humangivens.com/2...
http://reslocus.wordpress.com...
http://www.caetextia.com/

Its funny you said that I have that an did throw rocks lol only at mean people though.

It's okay for parents to reserve things for their kids. It's not like they are going to get the entire store at the same time. A little here and there NEVER hurt anyone. Get over it.

Make some adult toys. ;D

"you'll get it when your older brother finishes playing with it!"

Of course kids are spoiled. It isn't always the parent either, its the grandparents too. ( though my finance beats my parents at spoiling our son, Im trying to break him of the habit, isnt going so well ) We try to only get little stuff unless it is a holiday and then it is only ONE big thing and a few little things.

My father remarked that he wouldn't leave anything but his ingrown toenails for my sister & but gloated that he'd spoil out children rotten, we didn't have any.

As a child, I would make a Xmas wish list and if I was lucky I might get a couple of things on the list.

Nowadays, parents don't consider it a wish list it's a shopping list

To heck with that! I couldn't afford a full list of stuff that kids find awesome these days. My son will be happy with what he gets or he aint getting squat.

A lot them splurge so they can brag & one-up other parents.