Today’s children prefer electronic gadgets or video games instead of strollers, dolls or traditional toys. Photo from Juguetón 2021.

Jazmín Stengel (Chapala)- Electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets and video games are the most desired gifts for children in the municipality this year.

In this sense, during the Juguetón 2021 (Toy Collection) in Chapala’s main square, many children took the opportunity not only to donate a gift, but also to share their Christmas wishes with Semanario Laguna.

Like 10-year-old Victor, who asked for a cell phone to share memes with his friends on social networks, or Sofia who wants a pink tablet because now dolls dress digitally by downloading fashion apps.

Video games have also become very popular among children and teenagers. A good example was Gabriel, who at 15 years old asked for the new “Halo” for Christmas and accessories for his latest generation “Xbox Series X.” Gabriel plays about 20 hours a week.

Of the approximately 10 children Semanario Laguna talked to last weekend, the wishes varied most in the brands or categories of the devices. The only difference was that clothing, makeup and fashion accessories reflect the desires of teenage girls.

It is now rare to hear a child ask for a bicycle or a skateboard, let alone spinning tops or marbles. Indeed, there were those who did not know the matatena (jacks). That was more so for the adults, who between jokes recalled the emblematic games of their childhood.

“We used to play ‘comidita,’ or jump rope,” recalled Isabel, mother of a girl and a boy who played in the plaza, while she and her husband took care of them. “The men played cops and robbers or wrestling,” the gentleman added to the conversation and concluded: “How curious! We millennials had to be in the middle.”

Translated by Mike Rogers