#Throwback Thursday: Fisher Price Little People

(Photo from GeekAlabama.com)

Remember the Fisher Price Little People and how much fun they were to play with? And the barns and school houses you could close up and take with you? These types of toys brought your imagination to life! They were simple and plain and didn’t come with hundreds of outfits or accessories. All you needed was your imagination and a few good hours and your afternoon was set!

This is one toy set I wish I hadn’t let go from my childhood. Thinking about it now on a Throwback Thursday brings back such fond memories, and makes me wish for those simpler times. Times without the rush of the internet, of devices like smartphones and tablets, and iPads and iPods. Just the other day we were visiting my in-laws and I looked over at my three kids, (two are teenagers and one is a tween) and all three had their heads face down in their phones.

There’s something a bit sad about today’s crazy hectic times. I do wish for simple days when we could just play with a piece of a colorful wooden toy doll, where our imagination could take us anywhere we wanted to go, where we didn’t have to wait for the next beep of a text, or a ‘like’ or a tag or an upload.

Where it was just easy to be kid and play.

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About the Author:

Stephanie Elliot, in no particular order, is a wife, writer, blogger, book reviewer, editor and mother to three kids, two who have already been tweens, and one who is right smack in the middle of his tween-ness. Her oldest son is almost driving and her daughter survived her tween years so Stephanie must be doing something right. Find out more at http://stephanieelliot.com