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childhood experience in a rich woman's fantasyland of toys, to a discussion of the way in which playing with toys is the first expression of abstraction and imagination (though Baudelaire excludes from this those children who 'merely' recreate adult situations - and here there is a certain misogyny in evidence in his scorn for female children playing at childish women - and also excludes 'men-children' who collect, rather than play with, their toys - a problematic argument, to my mind, since this might be read as a symptom either of anxiety or of possessiveness, but not, certainly, as a lack of creativity). But the ultimate desire of a child is to see the soul of a toy, and for this reason, at some time or another, the child breaks the toy. Just as playing marks the beginning of abstraction and imagination, so the failure to find the soul gives the first sensation of stupor and melancholy. http://www.oztion.com.au/myauctions/shantigifts.aspx

2007-06-11 15:17:01 · 4 answers · asked by nikkiidaniels 3 in Arts & Humanities Performing Arts

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You can either donate them to needed kids or take them to a consignment store that specializes in kids things, and buy something else with the money, like maybe, go to eat some ice cream, etc. with your kids or get different toys, so they feel they got out of the experience. That teach them how to trade things. It is a good way to recycle.

2007-06-11 15:49:54 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco River 2 · 0 0

u should give the toys to kids in need and give those kids the same experience ur childrens had with the toys.

2007-06-11 15:27:37 · answer #2 · answered by jossy d 1 · 0 0

Donate them to a children's home or and keep a select few for your friend's and family's kids to play with when they come over.

2007-06-11 16:03:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If they are in good condition, some hospitals that have a children's department, may take them, if they are clean, and in excellent condition.

2007-06-11 16:37:04 · answer #4 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 0 0

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