I had Barbie toys when I was little but I didn’t play with them that much. I was more likely to play with stuffed animals or plastic horse figures. But every once in a while I did play with the Barbies. Definitely not to the extent that some of my friends did though. Read more »

Isn’t it fun to remember some of those great toys from when you were very little? Things like wind up toys, slinky, Matchbox cars, Mr. Potato Head, Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots, View Master, Hoppity Hop, and Teddy Ruxpin. Read more »

When I was little my mom was constantly telling me to go outside and play or go outside and get some fresh air. Go play with summer toys outside! I think that was good advice. I actually did a lot of playing outside when I was growing up. I had a couple of friends in the neighborhood and we played games outside just about every day. In fact we very seldom played inside the house. That was actually a treat to get to play inside. Read more »

I think I must be out of the loop, I had never even heard of Melissa and Doug Toys until last year when I started doing a lot of research on toys. Since then I see them just everywhere, online, offline, all over the place. People seem to be loving these toys for their kids. Read more »

You’ve bought educational toys for your kids and learning toys galore, so much that they are miniature Einsteins on the fast track to Harvard, but you’re having a birthday party for your child and their friends and you’d like to have some children’s games for them to play. Good idea! But you may be stumped as to what games they might want to play. Read more »