Give these at a baby shower.... if you hate the parent.

I have decided to start blogging about toys that I hate. There are toys that other parents should not let themselves be subjected to. Here are two of my least favorite toys:

First: The ball "popper" This toy looks interesting and non-threatening. The concept is that there is a little fan that blows air and when you press the red stopper, a ball goes floating up in the air, held delicately until you push it again, another ball pops up and shoots the other into the yellow and blue ramp. It looks really neat and works really well for a while. Until.... You lose all the special light balls that come with it and your toddler starts to shove things like golf balls into it and then has a temper tantrum because they won't float properly in the air when the stopper is pushed.

This toy was recently placed in our attic. It might reappear when my boys are a tad older and Mommy's Paxil dose is upped.

The second toy from hell nomination: The Parents Pound-A-Ball. Also known as Give Mommy the Need to Drink Heavily. Again, this looks like a perfectly normal, cool toy. You put the balls on the top, hit them with your squeaky hammer and they go rolling down the ramps. So what's the big deal? The problem is that anything fits in those holes and about 39 times a day, I deal with a crying kid who put a matchbox car in there and now the balls won't go down. No matter how you shake the damn thing, it seems impossible to get the stray toy out. I can always do it, but sometimes it is literally after 15 minutes and a Mike's Hard Lemonade.

So... buy this toy and give this to your kids. But don't give them any other toy or cracker or cereal, or anything smaller than about a two inch diameter. Because you WILL be trying to get the debris out. And you will curse.

Don't worry.... more to come!