As far as the Little Carts go, they sound like FANTASTIC ways of getting one’s very own laundry to one’s very own room – or one’s toys picked up and put back in the toybox. It could even be a good way to help Mom take laundry to the laundry area. There’s no reason, after all, why kids can’t be genuinely helpful – part of the purpose behind these toys is to help children learn – they really want to learn, learn what it’s like to be adults. It takes an awful lot more patience to teach a child to be helpful than to just do it oneself – but once you do that, you are repaid many times over; not only do you have someone to help, you have someone well on the way to being an autonomous adult. I was incredibly proud on the nights I was allowed to make dinner, when I was in grade school; and it put me leagues ahead of the girls I knew in college who had no idea how to cook, or how to do their own laundry.

Also, when will Dyson et al clue in and make mini versions that actually WORK? This was why EZ-Bake Oven was Teh Shizznit when I was little: it really did bake things!