Like Candy from a Baby

Okay, does This really seem like that good an of idea?

Health officials in Austria are taking away preschool & kindergarten children's toys away from them (Well, from the school toychests anyway). These "Toy-Free Kindergartens" are to somehow prevent them from becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol later in life.

...Wait, what?

Well, from what I gather, they think that (in a step-by-step basis):

1) Taking the toys away will force them to entertain themselves.
2) In the course of entertaining themselves, they will seek out playmates.
3) This interaction will a) make them socially integrated and b) more independent.
4) This social integration/independance will help them find a positive role.
5) This positive role will keep them from drinking and doing drugs.

Eeeeerrrrrmmmm, okay!

I'll give them 1 and 2. But that doesn't neccessarially follow through to 3,4, and 5.

And I'm not so sure that having a favorite toy has anything to do with drug use.

But I wish them luck! Have fun paying later in life for all the psychiatric bills your citizens will drop on you when they've been picked on by mean kids who were bored because they didn't have any toys to play with! :-P

Rock on, folks.