Deciding what toys to buy for the loved children in their lives is often not an easy decision for parents and grandparents to make. With such a variety of toys available on the market, it is easy to understand how it can become overwhelming.
There are toys that talk, dolls that wet their diapers, and computer games that claim to make kids smarter. Yet, even with all these high tech options, it is still the simple things that children return to again and again.
Why is that? Well, because the very fact that modern toys can do more that traditional ones means that they leave less to a childs imagination - and all children love to use their imagination. For example, a robot that has a lot of flashing lights, but only says stop, is not going to offer a whole lot of options for imaginations to run wild. At our house a cardboard toy box gets played with more often than the toys inside it.
The kids toys that will keep them entertained time after time are those that can be completely different each time they play. Some examples are blocks, boring dolls, dress up clothes, and child safe face paint and make up. Though a toy may look the same each time, they can incorporate it into wherever their imagination wants to take them.
My kids, even though I have a boy and a girl, want to turn everything into a sword. Ninjas, pirates, whatever suits their fancy at the time. Countless times the toys they practically begged me for last weekend have been deserted whilst they run around the garden with tree branches in hand trying to take each others 'treasure'.
A childs imagination really is a wonderful thing! That's not to say that you should let them run wild with it unsupervised though, as the situations that they want to play out can be as dangerous as they are creative. Whilst modern fancy toys undergo rigorous safety testing, their simpler alternatives can only be tested in a limited fashion. After all, how much testing can really do on building blocks and plastics swords? It's that the toy in itself can be dangerous, it's the way that children find to utilize them. So, always be on your guard and keep an eye on them.
The younger they are, the more watchful you will have to be. Do not be fooled into thinking that they will just sit and hold whatever you give them. Just holding something is no fun at all! Within 10 minutes they will biting, pulling apart, standing, etc. whatever toy it is that you have given them. However simple, safe and indestructible you think something is, they will always try to find some way to injure themselves with it. That's just the way are!
I hope you've started thinking about all the kids toys you can get for your kids that will set their imaginations free. - 31409
There are toys that talk, dolls that wet their diapers, and computer games that claim to make kids smarter. Yet, even with all these high tech options, it is still the simple things that children return to again and again.
Why is that? Well, because the very fact that modern toys can do more that traditional ones means that they leave less to a childs imagination - and all children love to use their imagination. For example, a robot that has a lot of flashing lights, but only says stop, is not going to offer a whole lot of options for imaginations to run wild. At our house a cardboard toy box gets played with more often than the toys inside it.
The kids toys that will keep them entertained time after time are those that can be completely different each time they play. Some examples are blocks, boring dolls, dress up clothes, and child safe face paint and make up. Though a toy may look the same each time, they can incorporate it into wherever their imagination wants to take them.
My kids, even though I have a boy and a girl, want to turn everything into a sword. Ninjas, pirates, whatever suits their fancy at the time. Countless times the toys they practically begged me for last weekend have been deserted whilst they run around the garden with tree branches in hand trying to take each others 'treasure'.
A childs imagination really is a wonderful thing! That's not to say that you should let them run wild with it unsupervised though, as the situations that they want to play out can be as dangerous as they are creative. Whilst modern fancy toys undergo rigorous safety testing, their simpler alternatives can only be tested in a limited fashion. After all, how much testing can really do on building blocks and plastics swords? It's that the toy in itself can be dangerous, it's the way that children find to utilize them. So, always be on your guard and keep an eye on them.
The younger they are, the more watchful you will have to be. Do not be fooled into thinking that they will just sit and hold whatever you give them. Just holding something is no fun at all! Within 10 minutes they will biting, pulling apart, standing, etc. whatever toy it is that you have given them. However simple, safe and indestructible you think something is, they will always try to find some way to injure themselves with it. That's just the way are!
I hope you've started thinking about all the kids toys you can get for your kids that will set their imaginations free. - 31409
