I don't see what's wrong with the pooping dog. Real dogs do poop (and sometimes eat it; they are scavenging omnivores, after all). Owners of real dogs do need to clean up after them.
Back before marketing and consumerism ruled the world, one important function of play was for little people to experience & practice what they would do as grownups, to begin building skills and identity before the stakes were too high to admit imaginative experimentation & possible error.
I reckon kids are still trying to do this neccessary part of growing up, within the context of the messages they get from culture, media... and their toys.
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Date: 2007-03-05 02:54 pm (UTC)I don't see what's wrong with the pooping dog. Real dogs do poop (and sometimes eat it; they are scavenging omnivores, after all). Owners of real dogs do need to clean up after them.
Back before marketing and consumerism ruled the world, one important function of play was for little people to experience & practice what they would do as grownups, to begin building skills and identity before the stakes were too high to admit imaginative experimentation & possible error.
I reckon kids are still trying to do this neccessary part of growing up, within the context of the messages they get from culture, media... and their toys.