The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission reports there were a whopping 232,900 toy-related injuries resulting in emergency room treatments in 2007. There were also 18 toy-related deaths among children under age 15. To help prevent these hazards, the CPSC has developed mandatory safety standards for manufacturers in the $30 billion play toys industry. The manufactures have added to these standards with their own voluntary standards. Together...more
Musical toys make wonderful gifts but how do you know which ones are right for your kids? These toys offer more than just fun and entertainment; they are also one of the best kids learning toys available. But the challenge is to provide kids with age-appropriate toys that can challenge them and motivate them to engage in active play time. This article provides some facts to help you know how to buy the right musical toys for your kids from the...more
Wooden building blocks can promote learning and develop physical skills in young children. They are one of the oldest and simplest of all toys; carved from wood, in various shapes and painted different colors. Most of us remember these from our own childhood. Our parents, grandparents and many generations before that would also remember, fondly, the hours spent building with these toys. Though wooden blocks toys are so simple, they are effective developmental tools for kids, even more effective than many of the high-tech electronic toys that seem to come and year after year. There are many ways these simple building blocks can shape and develop our children.Building blocks challenge kids to build bigger, stronger structures and to be more creative. Kids can build great fortresses and bridges. These simple toys help kids to open their imaginations, where they travel to distant lands and we battled evil empires. Kids will build structures then tear them down, only to build them again. These toys help kids take ideas from our imagination and bring them into physical realities.A child learns logic and reasoning. From simple activities of learning how to pile wooden blocks so they will...more
Learning toys offer a lot more than just fun for kids. Play time for kids is like work time for adults. While most adults, don't think of kids play time as being productive, it actually offers kids many opportunities to learn and grow physically, mentally and socially.So if play time is actually like work time, then learning toys are like work...more
Alphabet blocks offer many potential benefits to young kids. While they are among the simplest of all toys, they are also among the most beneficial in many ways.One of the great things about alphabet blocks is they come with no rules and no instructions. Kids get to make up their own rules and play away. The sky is the limit for what they can do...more
Parents might not spend a lot of time thinking about the make-believe learning toys they provide to their kids, but maybe they should start. A closer look at play time shows that different types of toys stimulate different types of child development.For kids, play time is more than just fun and games. Play time provides kids with a safe way to experiment and learn about the real world without all the risks associated with the real world. Play time is actually productive time proven to develop talents, character, social skills, language skills, creativity, emotional strength, intellectual capacity and self-discipline.To help parents consider the impact of different types of make-believe learning toys and the impact those toys have on child development, here is a list of different learning toys that are known to stimulate make-believe play. 1.Dolls and dollhouses available today can be amazingly life-like, which helps kids to imitate real life and role-play with members of their pretend doll family. The emotions and bonds developed during this play time are real. Little girls can get very much attached to their dolls as they practice loving and caring for another person.2.Stuffed...more
It is easy to under-estimate the educational benefits of play time. By the time we become adults, most of us have been indoctrinated with the philosophy of no pain, no gain. But research shows play time for kids can help with development of important...more
Ben 10 is an animation created by a group called Man of Action. The group consists of Steven T. Seagle, Joe Kelly, Joe Casey, and Duncan Rouleau. It is now a popular television series with Cartoon Network Studios as its producer. This television...more
Bead crafts are excellent projects for children because they help to develop their fine motor skills while increasing their self-confidence as they master a new skill and create projects that they can share with family members and friends. The...more
I just had another "victim" of the Child Abuse epidemic in my office today."Oh" you say "that is so sad, I hate to see kids get abused."What you've just done is fallen for the same old trap that everyone falls for these days; this trap is fed by the...more
Author: Vivek SharmaDoes it ever make you sick, to play the game for your WOW account, to slowly and steadily build up your score, take years and years to play World of warcraft account?. It involves, slowly and steadily building up your score,...more
Educational toys are a superb and meaningful thing to think about when considering the options for Christmas presents for the kids in your life this year. The range of educational toys currently available is little short of astounding, and there are...more