There’s a specific place in hell reserved for people who buy the kids in their lives noisy and messy toys.
Recorders, slime, or battery-intensive items, for example.
Or anything that requires parent involvement so that the kids can’t just go away and play by themselves.
Those things are not gifts – they are extra parental work – emotionally, and physically.
Conversely however, if you are the giver of such a present, you will undoubtedly feel a perverse thrill from of utter delight from the recipient, and absolute horror from the recipient’s parent.
If you are such a person, who feels the need to punish parents (and their children) in this way, then please, let us present a new toy for your consideration:
Yellies, from Hasbro, which are powered by children’s screams.
Yes, you read that right: the more, and louder, a child yells at the spider-shaped toy, the faster it scurries around. It is literally powered by yelling.
What fun for everyone within a five kilometre radius.
The toy, which quite obviously was created by someone who is not a parent, or who hates people in general, is available in Australia at various outlets, including Target, and retails from $15.
Much to everyone’s surprise, there has been one parent who foolishly, deliberately and voluntarily, purchased a Yellie for her young son – with disastrous consequences.
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