In the media there was information about the prohibition of the Barbie doll: why it is necessary and what threatens

I had no Barbie. In that period of my childhood, when it was supposed to play with dolls, they had not yet been brought into my environment. I didn't even know about them. In my 6−8 and later years, we played a kind of a prototype of a Barbie doll - asexual smooth dolls, without emotions on the faces and even without hair. The hair was only convexly marked by a stamping machine, they say, there should be a bob haircut. In general, these were good pupae for those times and very rare.Photo: Getty Images A tragedy happened once. My friends and our brood of our dolls and I went for a walk to the playground. At some point, my toy lost a hand. For a long time I mourned my one-armed, sexless gangster, and then came with my child trouble to my grandfather. And he said: - Nothing, buy a new one. You do not cry. - But I need exactly the same! She has a house, a car, and dresses! Only there is no pen. - I will find! - the veteran grandfather promised and left for Detsky Mir early in the morning. There was no grandfather for half a day. I waited impatiently. And he came back with a cloud on his brow. He closed with his grandmother in the kitchen, and there he spoke of his pain and his impotence, and anger, and despair. I heard vaguely. And I felt sorry for Grandpa that he was so upset about me. Well, that grandfather was a carpenter from God. He cut some kind of doll handle out of wood, fitted it to a plastic calf, and I began to sew dresses for her only with long sleeves. After many years, many years, I became a mother. My son was born. I bought him a lot of toys: cars, helicopters and soldiers. But another one of the first toys I supposedly bought for my son was Barbie. In a simple pink dress, with handles that bend, with long legs, on which pink studs. And I already knew at the time of purchase that I actually bought it not for my son. And for that girl inside me with a broken doll. And probably, also as a tribute to the memory of those feelings of the veteran grandfather. What is still not in vain, that now you can buy any doll. Or not?Photo:Getty ImagesThe other day, adults started talking seriously about banning Barbie. Does the doll not respect some values, imposes its own? Well, well! Then we can also ban Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, Poli Robocar and all the monster dolls with coffins, generally created entirely according to the patterns of the aesthetics of evil. But what result will we achieve? There is nothing easier than shifting the responsibility for raising children to the doll, banning it and putting a tick next to the line "we took care of the moral character of the younger generation." But playing with dolls with kids, teaching them to create something with their own hands, playing out various life situations together ... this takes time, patience and an ocean of love for your own child. The world of toys, it reflects the existing world ... Oh, these adults! They seem big, but they play such stupid games!