90s toys

The year my doll vomited all over the church during Christmas Day Mass

The year my doll vomited all over the church during Christmas Day Mass

Christmas 1997 was a big deal for me. The Christmas before most of my friends had gotten Baby Born dolls, which any 90s kid will remember were huge at the time. Unfortunately Christmas eve of 1996, Santa ran out of dolls before he got to my house, so come the following year I could hardly […]

5 years ago

All of the toys from my childhood that I have now passed down to my kids

All of the toys from my childhood that I have now passed down to my kids

I was at the park recently with my children and there were so many kids with plastic backpacks and Aaron Carter haircuts that I thought I was in a time warp. The 90s are back and I can’t even deal with the fact that it’s been nearly 20 years since the decade ended. I think […]

5 years ago

Musings: Baby Born dolls — setting impossible standards for babies since 1991

Musings: Baby Born dolls — setting impossible standards for babies since 1991

I think most of us have heard about how fashion dolls like Barbie set impossible body standards for women. Recently this has changed with Barbie dolls being reinvented into different shapes and sizes, but there’s another dolly culprit that needs to be addressed — Baby Born. For decades now Baby Born has been setting impossible […]

5 years ago