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[ocelot]

Educational baby toys (and probably the majority of educational toys for older kids) are a capitalist plot. By marketing these flashy, noisy, migraine inducing things as educational, they're implying that if you don't buy it for your kid, they won't be able to develop some vitally important skill and will end up STUPID! Or at least not as smart as all the other kids whose parents were smart/rich/nice/gullible enough to buy their kid a multicolored dancing hippopotamus that sings a different song each time you poke its eye. Look! They're learning hand-eye coordination, cause and effect, and the delight of gouging eyes (utterly vital in the business world. Your child will be a failure if s/he does not learn this as early as possible) all at once!

Because poor deprived kids like Laura Ingalls, who was happy to get a single tin cup for Christmas, were STUPID, you know?