Being a parent to small children requires certain qualities. One quality I never thought I would need as a parent would be that of a safe cracker. When did toy packing begin to resemble Fort Knox?
Now when I was growing up, I had many toys in my toy box. GI Joe, He-Man, Star Wars and more filled my room and around the house on occasion. I would play with my toys and invite friends over to share the toys.
I would usually get one of my parents to open a new toy out of the box for me. There were even times that I remember, I would open the packaging myself. That way I would get to the toy at kid speed. I don’t remember the packaging on any of my toys requiring something sharp or even tools to extract the toys inside.
I do have to say that the toys of today are far more sophisticated then what I grew up with. Some of the toys today can do things I only dreamed of when I was growing up. Now, with the new advanced toys of today, do they also require much bigger and harder packaging to open them?
No matter the time or occasion, whether it is for a birthday, special occasion or Christmas time, there are so many toys that have be opened and put together. I know as a parent, it is one of our duties to open, assemble and configure these toys for our children. Now that you have to be a safe cracker to open toys, the task takes that much longer; not to mention the frustration level of some of these toys and what you have to do to open them. I wonder how much it costs a toy company to put all this packaging to protect one toy.
Now I bet I am not the only one that feels this way. I am sure there are many parents out there that can attest to the same frustrations I have. However, I wonder about the toy factory workers. If it takes the amount of time and effort to remove the protection on the toy packaging, what does it take to actually put it all together at the toy factory? I can’t even imagine what it takes for a toy factory worker to assemble all that packaging for just one toy. I would think it would compare to the assembling of the security at Fort Knox.
I don’t know who the person was that came up with these complicated security measures for protecting Barbie and her friends. I do know one thing; I would love to meet the person who came up with the idea of the packaging for today’s toys.
I even wonder if that person had children of their own.
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