Toy Woes

The hard thing of bringing someone as young as my kid to the malls is they seem to have a great talent in finding the toy stores. I so dread  seeing the toy section of any department stores or  mall when the kiddo is with us. Why oh why do they have to place the toys the same floor as the home & kitchen sections? Why do they have to bring those blinking, reeling, remote-controlled toy cars out for moms & their kids to see? I almost lost my cool to one male salesclerk in this famous department store for really hard selling a toy car worth almost 3 thousand pesos to my son! I bought instead a Thomas train track set even though it cost almost the same. At least no batteries needed to play with it.

Toys are ok to buy, but I have one exception --those battery operated remote toy cars. You have to purchase 3-4 pieces of AA batteries for the car itself, and one rectangular shaped battery for the remote. But you have to get 2 sets each, one set is for back-up later when the first ones dies out. Andali pa masira pati.

I really prefer educational toys, and some wooden toys. And for toy cars, I buy the sturdier metal ones that adults collect.

Today these are what we bought ( I secretly replaced the remote toy car my kid initially picked and insisted while he was not looking hehe):

  train classics made of wood

PRICE:  40php  (marked down from 80php)

 And this...

Its made of natural wood with good finish and unpainted.
You have to assemble it. It came with a small screw driver, and screws.
NOTE: Adult supervision isof course needed.

Albert and his tita Gel had fun assembling it to this:

It isn't finished though when I took a photo of it.  Albert would not give the last two pieces.

PRICE:  100 php   (marked down from 300 php)
Bought it at a ground floor SM department  store outlet in Sm San Lazaro Manila.

Both toys are not for children under 3 years old.


 Namaste!