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Whether parents want their children to have them or not, the profits they reap will ensure that they will be around for many more years, at least until an alternative, could-be-worse, money-maker is found. It's no good moaning! Knowing that you don't like them, may make them more appealing. Generation gap and all that...
Find a good angle
Use what you might consider to be bad points about the dolls, to be constructive input in perhaps unexpected ways. Knitting for dolls adds extra dimensions to the whole experience of play... called Maths and Sociology.
Counting stitches and measuring rows are surpassed by additional skills:
spacial awarenessappreciation of planningcosting materialsaspects of designingsocial expectationsmarketing expectationspeer pressure verses individual thoughtetc...And all added by a pair of knitting needles and a ball of yarn!
Action Man News
HM Armed Forces News
A male toy
Whether children knit the clothing or just play with it, the experience is enlightening. They need a normal, macho, male doll. It seems that all these types of toys are monsters or aliens or the like. The games involved will all be fiction / Sci-fi / etc.
Real-life play
There is a lot of fighting these days, but this is real-life. The soldier leaves family and friends at home, and experiences mental and physical pain. On leave at home, they wear civilian clothes. They go shopping in supermarkets and let their hair down at parties. Normal, socially acceptable behaviour...
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