Even Barbies Need a Burial
Sometimes it’s not the things they say that give us nightmares; it’s the things they do, like mummifying their Barbie dolls and burying them in a cardboard box. We’re going to take a stab in the dark and say she must have learned about ancient Egypt in school this week.
It’s an exciting educational time where we learn how the Egyptians used hieroglyphics to record their history and honor their pharaohs in the afterlife with gigantic pyramids filled with treasures, but some kids are more enthralled by all the ghastly details of post-mortem care like the mummification process and sarcosarcophagi.