As children we all have something that has shaped our childhood and helped make us who we are today. Some children had toys, some had games, some preferred to play with imaginary friends and some children preferred to just be alone. While I was a very personable and social child, I had one toy in particular that I loved to play with. My set of Barbie's meant the world to me. I would take them everywhere, dress them up and pretend their life was my life in the future.
My favorite thing to do as a child was play with Barbie's. Very specifically blonde haired, blue eyed Barbie's. I wouldn't play with any other kind. I loved the fact that Barbie had super straight and blonde hair. I always envied that since my hair is kinky curly and dark brown. …show more content…
Her smile always infatuated me. Her "teeth" were so perfect and white. I wanted my smile to be like hers so badly. When I was younger my teeth were very crooked so I think that's I loved hers so much. I believe Barbie's stayed interesting to me as a child is because something new was constantly being marketed. I managed to be attracted to a gender specific toy. According to psychology today, most children play with toys that a geared towards their biological gender. In a study they completed with monkeys, the male monkey preferred to play with the masculine toys while the female monkeys preferred to play with the feminine toys (Kanazawa 2008). The idea of biology influencing our preference in toy has been very fascinating to learn about. As technology was growing when I a child, the advertisements they used to show for toys made a huge difference in who wanted to buy what …show more content…
Because of Barbie while I was growing up I wanted the perfect life. Perfect house, husband, body, ability do anything, and keep it all together while doing so. Barbie could do anything and everything and that's what I wanted. I feel like this ties into the psychoanalytic theory, I didn't know why I wanted to do these things as a child, but I did. However, as an adult I still find myself doing similar actions. The psychoanalytic theory can be defined as the unconscious mind contains what the conscious is not aware of, including suppressed desires or emotions and instincts - it is the source of our motivations. Sigmund Freud is probably the most well-known psychologist in history, and his Psychoanalytic Theory of child development was based on the idea that a child’s behavior is greatly determined by unconscious desires in the child. Freud understood the human mind to be divided into three controlling concepts. He believed that all children are born with certain innate selfish desires that drive their behavior (Farr 2014). I would still like to have the perfect body, perfect home, and perfect life. Things I strived for as a child are still prominent in my adult life. I did not know why I did these things it was second nature. Barbie has had a very strong influence on me even today. Whether it be negative or positive it's there. I feel like growing up I had body image issues because of how perfect she was, but
My favorite thing to do as a child was play with Barbie's. Very specifically blonde haired, blue eyed Barbie's. I wouldn't play with any other kind. I loved the fact that Barbie had super straight and blonde hair. I always envied that since my hair is kinky curly and dark brown. …show more content…
Her smile always infatuated me. Her "teeth" were so perfect and white. I wanted my smile to be like hers so badly. When I was younger my teeth were very crooked so I think that's I loved hers so much. I believe Barbie's stayed interesting to me as a child is because something new was constantly being marketed. I managed to be attracted to a gender specific toy. According to psychology today, most children play with toys that a geared towards their biological gender. In a study they completed with monkeys, the male monkey preferred to play with the masculine toys while the female monkeys preferred to play with the feminine toys (Kanazawa 2008). The idea of biology influencing our preference in toy has been very fascinating to learn about. As technology was growing when I a child, the advertisements they used to show for toys made a huge difference in who wanted to buy what …show more content…
Because of Barbie while I was growing up I wanted the perfect life. Perfect house, husband, body, ability do anything, and keep it all together while doing so. Barbie could do anything and everything and that's what I wanted. I feel like this ties into the psychoanalytic theory, I didn't know why I wanted to do these things as a child, but I did. However, as an adult I still find myself doing similar actions. The psychoanalytic theory can be defined as the unconscious mind contains what the conscious is not aware of, including suppressed desires or emotions and instincts - it is the source of our motivations. Sigmund Freud is probably the most well-known psychologist in history, and his Psychoanalytic Theory of child development was based on the idea that a child’s behavior is greatly determined by unconscious desires in the child. Freud understood the human mind to be divided into three controlling concepts. He believed that all children are born with certain innate selfish desires that drive their behavior (Farr 2014). I would still like to have the perfect body, perfect home, and perfect life. Things I strived for as a child are still prominent in my adult life. I did not know why I did these things it was second nature. Barbie has had a very strong influence on me even today. Whether it be negative or positive it's there. I feel like growing up I had body image issues because of how perfect she was, but