On one hand we have the Leap Frog, Leapster, etc. line of toys and games that portray the idea that children when not eating, pooping or sleeping should be LEARNING! all the time, every moment of every day. Learn, learn, learn! You’re SIX how are you going to get into Harvard if you don’t play your Leapster! Learn, learn, learn! I don’t think the company makes a single toy designed just for fun, to play, to enjoy being a kid at a time when you’re not 80 and wearing diapers.

On the other hand we now have Monopoly with an electronic bank that doesn’t even require your microcephalic children to be able to count. You can play faster now because we’ll do that hard math stuff for you! Do we really need to play Monopoly faster? Are children (those who don’t have Leap Frog products that is) so moronic we can’t teach them a base 10 number system? My dad had a great way to speed up Monopoly, we divvied up most of the money when the game started. We started rich and got richer (The Donald Trump version of Monopoly) the games were cut throat and quick but at least we knew how to count.