[Gen X EJC]

Originally Posted by nana55

When you have little kids, all the things you said you would never do go out the window when you actually have one.

Oh, I know. My mom was vehement about not letting my brother have toy guns and now he has about eight real ones in a safe in the garage, LOL.

The reason I think it's tacky is that they've adopted these kids from developing nations, where war is very much a reality, if not in those countries, at least in neighboring areas. I just think it's really insensitive to claim to be humanitarians and then 'dress up and play soldier' when there are thousands of people (including children just like theirs) who are being ravaged by the atrocities of war.

It seems to be there's a pretty big difference between buying Princess Jasmine and voluntarily putting on a uniform of death to pretend with your kids. I mean, seriously, if your granddaughter came up to you and said she wanted to play 'refugees from Darfur' wouldn't you be just a liiiiiittttle freaked out??