Scary Mommy
Aug 04, 2022
 
 
BARBIE GIRL
Am I The Last Mom In America Giving My Daughter A Barbie?
 
Today’s piece is from yours truly, about one of the most iconic — and yet much-debated! — items in the millennial toybox: Barbie. I absolutely loved Barbie as a child in the 1990s. All those over-the-top clothes! The elevator in her Dreamhouse! Her hot-pink aisle loomed large at the store in my day, and it seemed she’d reign forever. But my daughter’s generation is different. 

And so I got to wondering: What’s Barbie’s place in 2022? 

— Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor
 
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The Pound Puppies Saga: How These Plush Toys Hooked Us & Now Our Kids
 
“Twenty years before a sad Sarah McLachlan tune played over images of pets needing rescue at the ASPCA — commercials so brutal that even McLachlan can’t watch them — I was a total sucker for Pound Puppies,” writes Jessica G. Hartshorn today, wrapping up our series on the millennial toybox. “They were the pandemic dogs before there was a pandemic.” Check out her final deep-dive into the toys of our youth!
 
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