Stop opressing your kids with Color Wonder

Monday, August 11, 2008

Color Wonder markers are oppressive to children. Read the definition of:

OPPRESSION: The systematic exploitation of one social group by another for its own benefit; it involves institutional control, ideological domination, and the imposition of the dominant group's culture on the oppressed group.

We as parents are the social group who is exercising institutional control on our own children not for their benefit but for ours when we purchase Color Wonder products. Crayola hypes this product as mess-free and what parent doesn't want mess free, right? It guarantees that your child will get a perfect picture every time because the markers will only color on a specified area on the paper. In other words your child will never color outside the lines. Hows that for oppressive? You are basically guaranteeing that your child will be a square and will never learn to think outside the box or learn from mistakes. Imagine giving this to a child who can possibly be a budding artist. How restricting and oppressive it will be to this child's creativity! Color Wonder is breeding a brood of parents who will cease to sit and offer input and companionship when their children are coloring since no supervision is required because you eliminate the problem completely of scribbles ending up on your walls or furniture. What is more important your child's creativity or the pristine nature of the walls. Randy Pausch's parents let him paint on his bedroom walls.
Watch Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" but ignore Oprah, she's a schmuck.

Randy Paush, Last Lecture on Oprah


Something to consider:

Let your kids draw on the walls