I mean, in the end if you are the parent, choose wisely the toys you buy. We spent a lot (really a lot!) of money on: duplo, brio, a wooden toy kitchen, an eno

I mean, in the end if you are the parent, choose wisely the toys you buy. We spent a lot (really a lot!) of money on: duplo, brio, a wooden toy kitchen, an enormous set of duplo animals, a set of magnets. Our children use those, yes we have garbage toys from friends and parents, but our children use those, exception for cars. Any car is fine. We also have 4 different garbage trucks (one for the sand, 2 rideables, 1 for playing at home), since we have a passionate guy. The plastic of all 4 is good, yes they are not metal unfortunately (but he is still 2). Train and duplo are still going really strong, the kitchen a bit less because we had to remove some pieces since they made such a mess that they wouldn't know how to cleanup, and I got frustrated doing it myself every time. For videogames, stoo giving garbage videogames and give them quality stuff. We skip tv for children and tablet videogames are not a thing, instead I let my children play yoshi's crafted world and kirby star allies. My daughter (almost 5) is really strong by now, my 2 year old is still getting started. I am very passionate of toys, I am very fond of my old ones (I have a very large lego collection, as well as mechas from power rangers). Aside from that, yes toys are mostly crap quality nowdays. I struggle to find good stuff, we'd rather skip a birthday and find a good more expensive toy to buy later on, if needed at all.