Buy Educational Toy For The Perfect Mental Prosperity Of Your Child

In the initial years of life the little ones learn when they play and the more they learn they crave to explore more in life. Such an endeavor brings progression in the way of their existence and this is how every child grows. This emphasizes the point that why is it important for you to buy educational toy for your kids in the family.

With educational toys, children develop innovative skills. Moreover, the expertise, which they already possess, is much sharpened with these educational toys. An educational toy is an enjoyable medium for effective leaning. However, before you go to buy an educational toy, you must cautiously evaluate and consider the role of the toy in letting your child learn and prosper in life.

When you go to buy educational toy you will be surprised to see the variety. Books, games, toys or animated movies, along with organic stuffed animals, dolls, block games, cars and wooden toys are some of the common examples of educational toys of different varieties and purposes. Such toys help in constructing and designing the psychology of your little darling.

When you set to buy educational toys, you will find that the market has such stuffs for all age groups. When you buy, it is significant that you consider the age of your child. Follow the order or sequence of the mental growth in your child and buy toys accordingly.

When you decide to buy educational toy, you can easily look through magazines, newspapers or television advertising the latest and the best educational toys in the market. However, your choice of the toy should depend on the usefulness of the stuff and you should never go by brand. For a more effective choice, you can also speak with other parents and teachers who know more about educational toys and such stuffs.

Before you allow your kid play with an educational toy, you must make sure how safe the toy is, and how appropriately can it be used to help your child mature and flourish in life.

When you plan to buy toy for a child who has not yet learned to crawl, you can readily choose among mobiles, music boxes, crib mirrors, stuffed animals and a wide range of other toys of various sounds and textures. On top of this, a play mat or an activity gym with bright graphics and appealing appearances is sure to capture the attention of your little one until he learns how to crawl properly.

For toddlers between 12 months to 2 years of age, Art and music with crayons, Play-Doh, Musical toys, Puzzles with big pieces, LEGO Duplos or other construction toys are appropriate.

If you want your kid stay close with science and nature you can readily go for toys like kid-sized cameras, toy telephones, magnets and toy binoculars. Moreover, with the educational floor puzzles of Melissa & Doug your kid will come to know more about alphabets, the secret of the solar system and will also learn how to develop problem solving skills.

For children between 6 to 12 years of age you should buy educational toys for remarkable development in the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic.

When you go to buy educational toy, you should carefully go through the labels and collect relevant information on the stuff. Remember, a careless choice of an educational toy can affect both your purse and the psychological growth of your child. So stay alert and well informe

Make Your Kids Playtime Full of Fun and Educational

Perhaps the top most benefit your kids can get from playing toys is the development of their motor, auditory and visual skills. Aside from the comfort they get after a terrible tantrum your kids can develop a sense of belongingness and a good emotional balance towards outside stimulus while playing with their favorite dolls and racing cars.

Your kids cannot see the true value of toys they play with. What’s in their minds is pure fun and enjoyment. How wonderful it is to know that a certain set of building blocks can develop your kid’s muscle control through grasping and stacking up the colorful block pieces. He/she too is exposed to various colors of the blocks which are great tools in developing the visual skills of your child.

Introducing your kids with different figures in puzzle forms such as animals, plants and body parts can enhance the identification skills. This is a fun way of teaching your kid simple patterns and characters the fun way. All along they are thinking of playing but in the long run they are learning effectively.

To develop the auditory skills you can incorporate a nursery rhyme playing on CD while your kid is playing. If you find it distracting though, there are other educational materials designed with sounds and music for auditory development. These toys include musical instruments, beeping trucks, plush animals making their own sounds.

Avoid exposing your kids to excessive viewing of TV that will make them couch potatoes in the end. Engage them in active playtime as much as possible to develop their mind set in performing actively in all aspect of their life. Limit your kids from playing video games. These toys are educational in some ways but only limited in benefiting your child’s well-being.

Even when playing, don’t forget to reward your child with simple gestures of love like hugging and kissing. Above all the educational stuffs you give to your child these are basic sources of confidence you can give. Hug or kiss your child each time he/she solves a puzzle or after successfully completing the alphabet song. Take advantage of the resources you can use in improving your child’s development from physical to emotional aspect.

There’s no greater joy in seeing your kids at their bests. Thus, selecting the right kind of playing stuffs for them plays an essential role. Make their playtime exciting, enjoyable and educational. You can’t afford to miss out on things which can help them in becoming into better individuals in the future.

Technology and Education

I was recently talking to a friend of mine who is struggling to get her son to read. It got me thinking. The truth is that hardly anyone, adults or children, has time to sit down and read these days. Of course people do MAKE time to watch American Idol, or Lost or CSI or whatever other empty TV show. Yes, sorry, I mean this. These are 3 examples but there are many more. I am talking about TV programs that either show the worst possible side of human beings or that give people a completely distorted version of reality. If I watched the local news, I would never come out of the house. People overseas have called me to ask if I was OK after hearing some news on their local TV… Across an ocean, thousands of miles away. What is the point of that?

So yes, it is a shame that people don’t read much because I do believe that there are a lot less mediocre books than mediocre TV shows. But here we are, that’s the reality and there is no doubt that children respond a lot better to TV and iPods than a good old bunch of pages. Note that it might have to do with the fact that most parents who want peace and quiet at home have a tendency to just sit their kids in front of the box from a very early age… You can’t blame the little darlings.

So let’s make the most of this situation. Ultimately, why do we want kids to read? Just for the skill or for the content of what they read? Past a certain age, it has to be for the content. The actual skill should be drilled early on and if you have teenagers who can’t read, that’s another problem and not the topic of this article.

A couple of years ago, I was given an iPod. I had never wanted one because I don’t listen to music much and I couldn’t imagine myself walking around with my earphones jamming to my songs. But then I was introduced around the same time to audio books. Wow! What a discovery! My iPod follows me everywhere. I hardly ever watch TV and whenever I am doing something that doesn’t require a high level of concentration, like cooking, ironing, cleaning the house, sorting out mail, etc, I just put the iPod on and I just “read”. I mean I am listening really, but as I am not prepared to make the time to actually sit and read. I just kill two birds with one stone. I have “read” dozens of books in the last couple of years and have learnt so much! It has been the best education of my life. I have grown in ways I didn’t think were possible.

Now I am sure that your kids have an MP3 player of some description. Have you thought about looking into audio books for them. Or simply some audio files that they can have in their iPod and that they would listen to. Have a mix of some music and some educational stuff. Do the same yourself: when you are driving somewhere, let the whole family listen to your favorite audio books, have a discussion about what is said. Get your kids into it from an early age.

The same applies to TV. Yes, there are a lot of useless programs on TV in my opinion, but there are also good ones, that actually bring knowledge. Some kids’ programs are very educational and then you have the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, etc. Instead of quietening your kids with mindless cartoons, try a Discovery program on sea life. Don’t get me wrong, I love cartoons too, every now and then. Some are better than others. But there has to be variety. Children, like all people, respond to what they are given. If you feed them violence from an early age, they’ll enjoy it because it will have become the norm for them and they will want more. If you feed them knowledge, instruction, education from an early age, they will want more of that.

Games consoles are the same. They have games that require some thinking and others that consist of shooting, or racing or pretending you are playing sport. If the weather is good enough to go outside and you like soccer or football or baseball, go and play it, do the real thing. If it is too cold or rainy and you are stuck inside, pick a game that will teach you something, about finances for instance or managing your future, or building a business. There are games like that.

Computer use also needs to be taught to kids early. Mastering Microsoft office is a must. Get them to write their journal on the computer for instance, get them to play around with PowerPoint when they have school projects, show them Publisher, etc. All these are essential skills. The Internet is also a great source of good or bad and you have to pick and choose. There are a lot of interactive sites for kids that can be great. All the communities are good too if they are used for a reasonable amount of time per day. It is very easy to get carried away on the net and spend hours literally wasting time. But there are also a lot of things to be learned. even just the technical aspects of using a computer. Teach your kids to be wise on the net: for instance, make sure they select what pictures they put in their profile and teach them about the kind of image they want to project. They can also learn about advertising themselves or an event on one of those communities. It can teach them about marketing at an early age.

Technology is full of riches. It has to be used wisely and kids have to be shown – ASAP – the positive, educational ways they can use it so that they will ask for more. Don’t blame violent TV or games, worthless TV shows etc for children’s lack of interest in school. Take your part of responsibility: you are the ones to decide what your kids do or don’t. Then work with what you have got and use this great tool that we call technology to your advantage.

Educational YouTube

The conventional way to learn new materials is either enroll into a course or read a book. However these are no more the only options that we have nowadays.

Actually the previous two methods have certainly their advantages such as getting some sort of certification after the completion of the course and this gives you credibility that you really know what you claim to know. As for reading a book it is still a handy and convenient way since you can take it with you while travelling in the train, plane or even on the beach. Note that even with these features books are being challenged by technology with the advent of iPad.

However, there are disadvantages related to those methods. Course involves displacement to a certain location on a certain date at a certain hour. For working people this is not always easy to do and even when done they might not be in shape to fully assimilate the explanation especially after having a bad day. On the other hand, books also require some energy to read and assimilate. In addition, if the content needs to be practiced there will be switching from reading to practicing and vice-versa.

Luckily, this seems to be changed by YouTube! Until recently I used YouTube to watch some funny movies. But the other day I had the idea to search for a technology related subject and I was surprised to see tens of videos to that topic. When running few of them I realized how efficient this method is. The explanations are directly backed by a demonstration, so the viewer won’t lose focus switching from book to computer. When, in doubt or you miss something you can repeat the clip as much as you need. You can pause to have some rest and resume later. In short you have all the advantages that you don’t have when you take a real life course. Plus it is totally FREE.

This reminds me of the open-source model, where people spend considerable amount of time and efforts to build software only to give it away for free. Same thing seems to happen in here; people are doing a series of learning videos and put them on YouTube for free. Surely they expect to get something in return by becoming well known in the domain they are talking about, but nevertheless the public is profiting from this model to get free learning and educational stuff.

Could we see in the future students logging to their YouTube class?! Nobody knows for sure, but one thing is certain; technology is reaching every aspect of the human life.

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