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So, the question is, do toys groom our children?
BY STEVEN KASZAB
What does it mean to groom someone?
To groom: Someone is being prepared for a specific position or situation. To teach, indoctrinate someone into a specific lifestyle or ideology.
Long ago there was a Senator Joe McCarthy serving in the US Senate. He was what you’d call a witch hunter, except instead of searching and destroying witches, this man and his followers sought out real and perceived communists, in the process destroying these people’s reputations and lives.
On December 6th, 1954, this man was the first Senator to be censured for the public harm he had inflicted upon his nation. Pre-war America, with the help of opportunists like McCarthy had groomed a generation to become fervent anti-communists, seeing any person showing a progressive bone within their bodies to be an enemy of America.
Public grooming of citizens often is shown through misleading news, social media, and public policy announcements that attempt to manipulate citizen’s decision-making processes. A highly conservative preacher can attempt to groom his flock while on the pulpit or through his interpretational teachings.
To Groom is to mould and shape a mind, attitude or perception of reality.
Can other items besides the media shape a child? What about the toys you gifted your little ones this Christmas? There are new and alarming words and concepts showing up in the children’s books we buy. Words like “transition, gender bias, gender joy” show us with simplified explanations that some of us are different. The attractive toy’s appearance adds to a message indirectly passed onto those who play with them. So, the question is, do toys groom our children?
I was given toy guns as a child, allowed to wear them and play with them wherever I travelled. It was natural for boys to have toys mimicking weapons of war, and for young girls to play with dolls and toy kitchen tools. Were those not grooming generations towards the accepted social norms of society? Men are the breadwinners, the protectors, while the ladies rule the home, children, kitchen and bedroom.
Look at socializing as a form of grooming. Now think about our present-day society with its social changes, gender bending ways, and confusion all around us. The problems America is having due to the gun culture. Was this all a good case of social grooming started long ago?
Every one of us is different, evolving personally and socially also, while some of us are retiring back to the comfortable days of social understanding. That is why there is a conservative and liberal alternative within the public sector. Different strokes for different folks eh. The problem arises however, with the visible process of social grooming continuing unabated. Within children’s books, toys both traditional and technological, social grooming exists, but only if you take the time to see it. An educated parent is a happy parent, right?
Identifying hidden messaging is key: identifying, understanding their purpose, and making the realization of its effect upon your child. Transgender ideology presents itself in a smoothing, accepting way.
Toy manufacturers have many objectives, namely, to be profitable, socially, and positively accepted. Last year Hasbro Toys was ousted for pushing critical race theory on their employees and in their toys. Can social grooming of children be a corporate strategy? Do you think about the theories behind the toys you purchase? Do you want your child to be able to make distinct definitive decisions about gender, acceptance of others no matter how different they can be? Do you think a toy should have an identifiable gender present?
In nations like: Russia, China, Israel and others, children’s books, toys and technological toys are formulated to include social grooming practices. In Russia, being a LGBTQ member is socially frowned upon, as in Uganda, so toys are made to pass that message on to the next generation. Chinese toy makers and book publishers’ frown upon Muslim teachings, indoctrinating children in Chinese cultural practices. Socializing grooming becomes public indoctrination.
A child is much like a sponge, absorbing information, life experiences daily. Toys, the books you give and read them, and the experiences you both live each day need to be understood, managed and interpreted by you, the parent, the adult. When you buy a car, you kick the tires, listen to the motor and give it a proper drive before deciding to buy it. Do so with all things attached to your precious little ones.