- Preschool-aged children at R-rated movies
- Chuck E. Fucking Cheese
- Child beauty pageants
- the Teletubbies/Barney/Boo Bah
- Washable markers that aren’t
- One-size-fits-all anything
- the fact that Elmo gets a 30 minute segment all to himself on Sesame Street
- Elmo
- Color names that confuse me (What is “puce” and why are there so many versions of “white” at the paint store?)
- When I find crayons in the dryer after I dried the clothes
- Stepping on tiny legos in bare feet in the middle of the night
- Electronic toys that suddenly start making noise when the baby is asleep just because I walked near them
- The obvious delight that grandparents get in giving toddlers gifts (e.g. drums) they would never have allowed their own children to have
- The “pink” aisle at toy stores.
- That McDonald’s designates toys as “girls” toys and “boys” toys