Friday, August 28, 2009

Games news: the baby glutton, an educative doll or a bad toy for young girls?



WASHINGTON

Americans little girls learn how to be a mother too soon with the new Baby glutton, a doll that simulate the breast-feeding with sounds and mouth movements. This toy, produced by Berjuan, a spanish company, comes with a special bra for girls to make the playing mother experience as real as possible.

The doll as special sensors and cries like a real baby when he needs more milk and does the burp when it’s filled. In USA the baby glutton it’s object of controversy: in fact, a lot of parents organization deeply believe that this doll may  push the girls to become mothers too soon increasing the risks of teenage pregnancy.

“breastfeeding is a natural process” object Berjuan’s marketing experts and  the idea behind the doll is to promote it by showing  little girls how to do it. But many parents are concerned  that the baby glutton could be a bad toy for their young  girls and not an educational game to teach children motherhood skills.

Honestly I  don’t think that girls need to use a doll to know breastfeeding at this very young age, there’s time for that: it’s true that breastfeeding is a natural process, but it’s also true that this is a woman natural process that not belongs to childhood and puberty and shouldn’t belong to teenage like many concerned parents suggest.

[Via http://clevergames.wordpress.com]

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