Yesterday was Colette’s last “free” day before starting the new school year. As a last summer hurrah, she wanted to eat at Red Lobster and hit Target for a new LOL Surprise Doll. She LOVES them! LOL dolls are purchased wrapped in layers of hard to remove packaging and once opened, the doll you get is a surprise, as are all the accessories that are included.
You get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit.
Once Colette saw the ‘surprise’ doll inside, she got quiet. Assuming the doll was one she already had, we asked, “What did you get?”
“A boy,” she said. “It’s inappropriate. I don’t want it.”
She thrusts the boy LOL doll at me. I take it and find the ‘surprise’ is a penis and scrotum. The hole in the end of the penis is where the doll pees.
We tell her to put little dude’s pants on him but she’s not having it. She explains, “The girl LOLs don’t have their private parts showing!” She goes on to explain the pee hole is just between legs on the girl dolls without anything else there. She again tells me this dude doll is inappropriate.
I know Barbie has boobs and Ken has a ‘bulge’ – but if a 9-year-old thinks her ‘kid’s toy’ is inappropriate to the point she wants nothing to do with it, who am I to disagree?
I’m not so much of a prude that I’m offended by the “Mom” tattoo — even though it IS on a bottle sucking, peeing (ummm… BABY) doll — but do think a ‘reputable company’ might want to reevaluate the product they’re selling to kids.
A quick Google search told me lots of parents aren’t happy to be surprised by a teeny penis and accompanying anatomy. One Mom of a 4-year-old was pretty crazy after her daughter wanted to know why her doll had bubbles down there.