Barbie Come Home!
Barbie Come Home!
By Rahima Baldwin Dancy
Not long ago a mother was lamenting that her young daughter wanted a Barbie doll and was having absolute fits at the toy store. I turned to my adult daughter, who happened also to be present for this conversation and said, "That's funny-you never asked me to buy you a Barbie doll." "Mah-ahm," she replied in two syllables, rolling her eyes. "I wouldn't have been that dumb!" (Parents take note: children choose their battles and know where the loopholes are; even as a young child, she knew a futile case when she saw one and wasn't going to waste her energy). "Besides," she added. I could always play with them at Melanie's. She had ten of them!" Fair enough.