Red Alert Parents! You are responsible for it!
Toys R Us is dead. There are umpteen business reasons for it. Yet that ONE HIDDEN FACT has been conveniently ignored.
When a giant like Toys R Us / Babys R Us is extinct, it shows the direction in which our society, civilization, culture is moving. We are inadvertently pushing our children towards rudimentary motor skills through the void of physical exercise. Did you realize that we made our children get addicted to consuming screen time? Of course, we passionately work towards building financial freedom for our family but little did we realize at the cost of our children. Their screen-time addiction is also a common theme of concern in the get-togethers. That's the irony.
On a serious note, when was the last time you bought actual toys for your children for Christmas or their birthdays or even as a reward? Do you remember it all started when you introduced hand-held devices to your children so that you can extend your attention span hours at work? Did we mess up the whole generation by killing childhood in our children? It did not happen overnight. We systematically brought this status, inadvertently.
Let's keep the toy business part aside. Can you imagine what could be with the 3rd generations to come?
How does your old age look like? It is not too far-fetched.
We will harvest the consequences in our life-time, given that the medical industry has increased our longevity.
Indeed, Tears R Us is a piece of old news. We have lost many such as telegram, inland letters, postcards, audiotape recorders, video cassette recorders, audio CDs, video CDs, DVDs, print photographs from Kodak & Konica, and so on. But these did not question the future.
As Christmas is approaching, we cannot stop thinking of toys that brought joy to our childhood. But we already took technology from our work into our DNA. In a decade or so, there will be VR toy museums for sure.
The funny part is when you type 'how to' in the Google search bar, the first auto-suggestion is how to become pregnant.
May the soul rest in peace for Toys R Us and the industry together.
Director at Ambiant Housing & Construction pvt ltd
4 年S indeed we have fallen to the prestige nd status point and have forgotten the life we wanted to live rather than living Fr others.? The 2k generation think they have everything at their finger tip but the fact is they don’t have anything. GOD bless all the breathing machines ??