Archive for November, 2009

How To Choose Right Toy For Your Kids

Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Educational Wooden Toys

Educational Wooden Toys

Child’s play should be fun and educational. There are different types of toys suited for your child’s age. Use age recommendations as a guide or something to challenge your child appropriately. It should be not too hard or too easy. Development milestones can help you discern your child’s learning stage. Hera are some guidelines to get you started. Many of these can actually be useful at various stages, and in different ways.

Birth to 9 Months

  • Give your baby toys that engage sense such as mobiles, rocking toys, chew toys, chunky boards and cloth books.
  • Use toys that stimulate cause and effect like pop-up toys and busy boxes

9 to 18 Months

  • Give role play toys that imitate real life like tool set, cook and kitchen toy set, animal farms etc
  • Toys that demonstrate how things that fit together like puzzles, blocks, and shape sorters
  • Toys that encourage motor skills such as pull and push toys, and balls

18 to 36 Months

  • Toys that encourage the child to create like modeling clay, crayons, and finger paints
  • Toys that improve the use of imagination such as dress-up clothes, action and animals figures, dolls and doll houses, stuffed animals

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Push and Pull Toys for Toddlers Learning to Walk

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

As your baby learning to walk, it is important to supplement both the physical and mental growth of your child. At this stage, your child is no longer content to play on a blanket or in a crib with a few favorite toys. Your child is getting more mobile and active, and his need for physical activities is growing with him.

At this stage, it is important to develop the hand and eye coordination and the balance of the new walkers. Parents should choose toys that would help the child in learning how to walk while maintaining his balance. As they begun to walk, toddlers are engaged in parallel play. They love to imitate the adults and incorporate with their play. With that we always have to incorporate toddler toys to their plays. The Push and pull toys can be used to develop your little one creative mind and motor skills. Push toys like lawn mowers or wooden toys cars can be played by the toddlers to do imitative play.

Push-along toys can be used as walker. Your toddler can practice walking while playing and at the same time it could boost their confidence. This is the best way of teaching your child to walk on their own. A child will be able to use a push toy first as they are just learning to walk. Later, once they perfect their walking skills, they love to drag pull toys on strings all around the house.

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