Children love toys. In the event that you have any questions about that, simply bring a kid into a toy store. She/he will presumably track down various things that he/she believes she just can’t survive without.
If you’ve ever marveled at the look of concentration on the face of a child who attempts to fit a square into a square opening or catch a ball in mid-air, you realize that playtime isn’t just about fun and games. It’s serious business — and toys are the secrets to success. Toys that engage and assist kids with understanding the world, master social and enthusiastic abilities, and animate a creating mind.
Playing with toys is considered as significant with regards to growing up and finding out about our general surroundings. More youthful youngsters use toys to find their character, assist their bodies with developing further, learn circumstances and logical results, investigate connections, and practice abilities they will require as grown-ups. Grown-ups once in a while use toys to frame and fortify social bonds, instruct, help in treatment, and to recall and support exercises from their childhood.
Research shows that learning through play is a significant influence of a kid’s turn of events. Despite the fact that guaranteeing your kid has sufficient play time is an incredible advantage to families to permit their youngsters to deliver some additional energy, a kid starts to discover who they are through play, even during infancy.
The main finding rising up out of the research is that different toys impact children’s behavior in different ways. Some toys affect kids’ speculation, communication with peers, and innovative articulation. Other toys don’t. A portion of the toys that look generally intriguing to grown-ups are not particularly effective in promoting development.
Children need to play, but I feel this doesn’t require lot of toys. My little one is school going and she loves everything which includes her family. Her current favorite toy is “Ludo“, “Monopoly“, “Jump Rope” and “Dancing with me“(I include it because she loves it to do in her leisure time when she doesn’t want to be with her toys).
By skipping rope with friends and family, kids learn to take turns and get along well with peers. All that jumping, and the coordination it requires, encourages large motor development and problem-solving skills.
In Board games, my kid loves Ludo and Snakes & Ladder. She likes to play it more with her father. Ludo teaches about strategy, turn-taking, negotiating rules, and fair play. Encourage cooperation and help your child learn to manage the emotions that come with winning as well as losing. But in her case, she rarely loses a game. Ha-ha
Why she loves to play Ludo and Monopoly because these games require concentration and most importantly, she gets family bonding while playing as these games promote family time, build communication skills, teach kids to follow instructions, digest them and then figure out what to do and encourage healthy competition. I personally like to play these with my kiddo too.
But her most favorite time is when she dances, especially with me. When she practices steps and told me “Mamma, you do it with me, it will be fun to do it together“. It gives both of us a chance to bond with each other, learn, and have fun at the same time.
So don’t underestimate parents role. After all, it’s we who put up the mobile, turned it on, and urged our child to follow. It’s we who previously told the child the best way to stack those squares. Also, when we sit next to each other with our children and paint, shading, or read a story, we give them the consideration they need to assemble their confidence and feel cherished and secure.
While our children probably need less than they have, playing with toys is better than the alternative as the kids of all ages spending so much time in front of TVs and tablets.
I generally love whatever she plays as I personally feel that she is now intelligent enough to choose her play materials according to her age. Sometimes I helped her to choose whenever she gets confused in her choices. Once toys are selected, we have to carefully observe their impact on children’s play. Toys are a tool to help kids develop, but it’s parents who nurture that growth.
We need to check whether toys elicit a good balance of play behaviors, across social, intellectual, and creative areas of our child development or not.