Rambo doll presents frowned upon
PA Wellington Parents should not put Rambo dolls in children’s Christmas stockings this year, says a toy safety campaigner, Heather Tanguay. . She said parents could not be thinking about peace on Earth and good will to'all when giving a plastic submarine gun, G. I. Joes or Rambo doll to their innocent three-year-old. American research showed constant exposure to agressive and. violent television and toys had a harmful effect on children, she said, and
led to problems as they grew older. “Gradually they become desensitised to the horrors of war and killing,** Mrs Tanguay said. “We will have a generation of children who. no longer find war repugnant.”
But the manager of a Wellington toy and hobbles shop, Mr Sunil Dahya, said war games and toys were nothing new.
“I played with guns when I was a kid and I don’t go round taking pot-shots at people,” he said.
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