Children are stupid and rotten and conformist, and elevating their weakness to a point of pride is insane. Trying to make them to stop being that way isn't confusing or cruel; it's one of the basic duties of being a parent and adult. Any pundit who starts holding forth on the superior behavioral wisdom of small children deserves to be bitten by one.From "Down with Toy Apartheid", Tom Scocca on our current era's increasingly demented obsession with colour-coding children, and not even the funniest paragraph.