Monthly Archives: June 2011

Educational Toys

A parent should come the greatest contribution to educational development of the child before the child begins his education never. Parents to their schools to teach children to count and to read or write his name. But the best chance of a child’s education and future growth to the combined efforts of parents, teachers and students from.

There is a huge difference in a child whose parents are actively involved in the learning process and the child who is left alone. It is not only a difference in the ability, quality of work, but also in attitude and self-understanding. Before a child is the school house, the toys should be such that their parents choose for him not only to keep him amused and occupied to develop, but also to his physical, mental and spiritual well-being. The market for educational toys is open Sun

Accepted after especially dealing with the reputation of toys by child psychologists, toy manufacturers have a wide range of toys that promise hours of fun and excitement for the child, and created at the same time, the requirements of these experts.

If it is true that no one ever steps into the same river twice, it is also true that no child is playing with the toy never twice the same. When the child at every stage of growth, change his game and how to change his game, the toy is also transformed. Psychologists have studied the development and evolution of the intelligence of the child, as experienced by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, looking closely at children. She came with a wealth of reality as a toy, educational or otherwise influence the child’s multiple intelligences.

An interesting sidebar to these results is the fact that toys and toy advertising a large effect on how children construct their gender identity have. Girls between the ages of 5-8, the Barbie dolls are exposed to, feel worse about their bodies exposed to little girl doll with realistic physics. Female stereotyped toys tend to promote the game more complex 18-47 months old. But children grow, their gender stereotyped toys become stronger. Boys, especially, to avoid more and more likely to play with “girl toys,” perhaps out of fear of social repercussions from their peers. So, the fashion dolls that for teenagers and pre-teen segment, in order to stimulate creativity and promote imagination, probably not the best educational toys are created, they encourage gender exclusion and desensitization. Both very feminine and very masculine toys appear with the worst aspects of gender roles are linked: for example, a focus on the emergence of violence among girls and boys.

Toy companies, like all other companies that aim to make money. But unlike many other companies, the market for the toy industry, that children are not further enriched with the ability to challenge these claims of enterprises or the question of the importance of their offerings. The fact that toy manufacturers to sell directly to one of the most important markets, which is dependent on intermediaries – their parents – for the purchase of products is in itself a great curiosity.