ELECTRONIC DOLLS NAMED WORST TOY FOR KIDS

ELECTRONIC DOLLS NAMED WORST TOY FOR KIDS

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Wireless Flash) -- A child advocacy group is calling a line of electronic dolls the worst toy of the year. The Maryland-based Alliance For Childhood claims high- tech dolls like the "My Real Baby" by Hasbro are destroying kids' imaginations. Spokeswoman Joan Almon claims that kids spend more time trying to figure how the doll works than playing creatively with it. Even worse, she claims the dolls are seemingly programmed to fool the kids that the dolls love them. The group says an oversized cardboard box makes a better toy -- which is what most toddlers wind up playing with after the packages are opened anyway.