Letters to the Editor
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is this ad geared towards the parents or the children?
I've seen ads for both the Rose Petal Cottage and the Tonka truck now, but both were aired during the news. They seem to be addressing the parents, not the kids. Are the same ads airing during Saturday morning cartoons or other children's programming, or do they have different ones that basically say "pester Mommy to buy you this"?
Boys ARE different. Yes, there are exceptions to every rule, but when I was teaching preschool, it usually wasn't the girls who were throwing their socks down the toilets/ smearing boogers on each other/ growling at each other from across the table for no apparent reason/ getting in fistfights for the hell of it, etc. Nor, when they played with the toy cars, did everything always end in a multi-car fiery explosion.
Both the toys look pretty cool--don't know why they made the Rose Petal Cottage so explicitly feminine unless it was to compete with the gender-neutral playhouses made by Little Tykes that are marketed to both boys AND girls. You know, parents who know they have a "princess" daughter who would be happier with something frilly...