A Comprehensive Guide to Buying Children’s Toys

Sarah Cappson - 19 Mar 19

So you want to buy an educational toy for your child. By now you’ve probably browsed through a few catalogues, walked through the toy isle at the local department store or done a little research online, to maybe you’ve done all three. But everywhere you’ve looked, they’re all claiming that they are the best for you children’s education. So we’ve created a comprehensive guide to help you choose the best children’s toys for you child.

The first and most obvious thing you need to consider is the safety of the toy. The quote above is extreme, but I think it serves to highlight that we don’t want an object that should be making our children happy to actually do the opposite and cause harm of any sort, or even worse!
For small children, you need to make sure that the toy doesn’t have small parts that they can choke on as little-ones always tend to put things in their mouths. Other safety things that should be considered are whether toys shoot things out, make loud noises and the material of the product needs to be thought about too.

“The younger the child, the more protected they need to be” – say writers from Essaysarea.com. For example, a toy for a baby should be typically soft, light-weight and have no small removable parts that be swallowed. A toy for a toddler could be made of hard material as well as soft, but wouldn’t shoot things out (as they’re bound to shoot in someone’s eye, if not their own), wouldn’t have sustained loud noises, and again no small removable parts.

One last thing on safety, and this is thinking about your children’s emotional safety and almost goes without saying, but you should always avoid buying any toy with violent or sexual themes. Your child might already see too much of these topics and find them confusing, so they don’t need to subject them any further.
Our second most important consideration is how the toy will help develop your child. Some people may be thinking that ‘Fun” should be listed as second, but I’ll ask you to consider this: nowadays the majority of educational toys are fun for your child, but the same can’t be said the oposite way around.

An educational toys is a great way to help your child become stronger in areas where you may have noticed that they are not so strong. There are four main aspects that we will look into; intellectual, emotional (and this includes social), spiritual and physical growth. In each category, we’ve put some recommendations that should help in that particular are and where possible, a link to an item that we hope you will find helpful and give you some great ideas.

Fun. Such a short word, but if your child doesn’t have any while using your toy, then it simply won’t be used again. It will be made redundant and sit at the bottom of the toy box. It is unfortunately, a waste of money. It’s different of course if the child has outgrown the toy and no longer uses it, but if you still know where the receipt is and it’s not being used, then it’s a waste. But don’t worry, we’ve all bought toys that haven’t achieved what we had hoped; that bear not snuggled into before bed, that doll’s pram not puched, that ball not kicked. It usually happend when we are rushed to buy or when we just can’t afford a better present.
For children to have fun with their toys, they need to be entertained of challenged. Good toys will always entertain children for a period of time while keeping the child’s attention (I mean that the child can use the toy to entertain themselves, not entertain as in the sense a film would entertain). Challenging toys also keep children focused, as long as it is level appropriate.

Sarah Cappson

Sarah Cappson is an author with over 3 years experience. She reselved Master's degree in Foreing Literature from New Jersey City University. Her professional interests are focused on writing. I addition she serves as writer for buy essay writing service. She provides an essay help for college students.

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