{"id":54,"date":"2011-04-04T05:26:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/?p=54"},"modified":"2011-04-04T05:26:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:26:41","slug":"new-toy-with-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/2011\/04\/04\/new-toy-with-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"new toy with controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After coming across Jennifer Langston\u2019s article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/moms.today.com\/_news\/2011\/03\/25\/6343393-is-the-world-ready-for-a-baby-doll-that-breast-feeds?gt1=43001\">I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">s the world ready for a baby doll that breast-feeds?\u201d<\/span>, <\/a>I think a new doll that encourages little girls(or boys) to pretend to breast-feed is too much for their age.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techmagnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/Bebe_Gloton_doll___Bebe_Gloton_toy_doll_loves_boobs.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This new product is a doll that allows kids to pretend to breast feed. Here is the doll\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thebreastmilkbaby.com\/\">website<\/a>, <\/span>it includes this<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> video <\/span>on how the works. From the video we can see that \u201ca little girl straps on a halter with pink flowers over the nipple areas, lets the baby slurp away and burps it\u201d. The marketers are obviously targeting little girls (or boys). However, little kids are not capable of walking into a store to pick their toys and pay at the cashier. Their parents are doing all that jobs for them, which means that marketers\u2019 target market should be the parents rather than the kids. Therefore, parents\u2019 thoughts of the toys should be taken into consideration as well. Have the marketers of the breast-feed baby doll ever done a survey on how parents view their newest product beforehand? Probably not- here is a video on how some moms think this product is.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>After the doll has launched, there are tons of negative comments like-\u201cwhy would a little girl need to learn how to breast-feed before she has breasts?\u201d and etc.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Jennifer said, \u201cthis is just a toy. Kids love to mimic things they see adults doing.\u201d I remember when I was a kid, I love brushing hair for my Barbie, I love making cupcakes for my doll, and I love changing clothes for them. However, in my opinion, pretend to breast-feed would be too much because kids are too young for it, kids don\u2019t even know what breast feed mean and how it works. \u201cThe manufacture goes on suggest the doll may help the U.S. toward greater acceptance of breast feeding.\u201d Frankly, why do little kids have to be educated to accept breast feeding when they are so little? There is no point to educate them when they are babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After coming across Jennifer Langston\u2019s article, \u201cIs the world ready for a baby doll that breast-feeds?\u201d, I think a new doll that encourages little girls(or boys) to pretend to breast-feed is too much for their age. This new product is a doll that allows kids to pretend to breast feed. Here is the doll\u2019s website, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yichenxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}