--- title: We’re Buying Our Kids the Wrong Toys description: Why we're buying the wrong toys for our kids, why the digital war on ISIS needs a single leader and more. canonical: https://time.com/4158674/were-buying-our-kids-the-wrong-toys/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-22T17:00:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:42.866Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We're Buying Our Kids the Wrong Toys og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4158674/were-buying-our-kids-the-wrong-toys/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: We're Buying Our Kids the Wrong Toys twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # We're Buying Our Kids the Wrong Toys by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 22, 2015 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 22, 2015 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We’re buying our kids the wrong toys.**](http://qz.com/156218/parents-are-buying-their-kids-all-the-wrong-toys/) By Jenn Choi in Quartz **2\.** [**The digital fight against ISIS needs a leader.**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/12/us-needs-someone-run-effort-defeat-isis-online/124664/) By Frank J. Cilluffo in Defense One **3\.** [**No, Spain isn’t following Greece’s lead on austerity.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-21/spain-s-election-wasn-t-a-rejection-of-austerity) By Marc Champion in Bloomberg View **4\.** [**One superintendent has figured out how to make school work for poor kids.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/this-superintendent-has-figured-out-how-to-make-school-work-for-poor-kids/2015/12/20/cadac2ca-a4e6-11e5-ad3f-991ce3374e23%5Fstory.html?postshare=4651450715555773&%3Btid=ss%5Ftw) By Emma Brown in the Washington Post **5\.** [**When al-Shabaab militants stormed a bus, Muslims on board protected the Christian passengers.**](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35151967) By BBC News  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4158674/were-buying-our-kids-the-wrong-toys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4158674/were-buying-our-kids-the-wrong-toys/"},"headline":"We're Buying Our Kids the Wrong Toys","datePublished":"2015-12-22T17:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:42.866Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4158674/were-buying-our-kids-the-wrong-toys/","keywords":["Innovation","School","christmas","ISIS","Spain","Toys","Al-Shabaab"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4158674/were-buying-our-kids-the-wrong-toys/","name":"We're Buying Our Kids the Wrong Toys"}}]}] ```