[HollyBearsMom]

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Everyone thinks I'm a toy nazi anyway

Not to nitpick but I have an issue with your terminology. You may feel strongly about what toys your children play with but the use the term nazi just mainstreams the term and takes away from the true horror.

Na·zi ( P ) Pronunciation Key (näts, nt-)
n. pl. Na·zis
A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power in 1933 under Adolf Hitler.
often nazi An adherent or advocate of policies characteristic of Nazism; a fascist.

adj.
Of, relating to, controlled by, or typical of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

[German, short for Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, National Socialist German Workers' Party.]

Nazi·fi·cation (-s-f-kshn) n.
Nazi·fy (-s-f) v.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

That said I do not think any electronic toy can replace being read too. Nor can it replace one on one teaching of any skill (math, etc) However is it terrible- no but I do find them annoying.

 

[HollyBearsMom]

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Originally Posted by annettemarie Sigh.

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Without fail someone brings up Jerry Seinfield and the infamous episode. That is just another example how common use desensitizes the term.

 

[HollyBearsMom]

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*TOY TYRANT*

That works for me. Thank you!

 

[HollyBearsMom]

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Originally Posted by Charles Baudelaire Good thing it didn't work with you, though.

I am deeply bothered by your remark. Nazi-ism is no laughing matter and I ashamed that there are still people who feel that way. I highly suggest you talk to victims or at least visit a holocaust memorial to get a true perspective on what the term Nazi means to them. Soon there will be no more victims still alive but the memories for their families everywhere will remain. It is hurtful to trivialize.

Or maybe you are one who feels it never really happened, that it was just a hoax?? But that is a conversation for another thread…..

 

[HollyBearsMom]

For those of you interested in continuing the conversations about the casual use of Nazi AnnetteMarie started a seperate thread:
http://mothering.com/discussions/sho...d.php?t=300834