Times when a toy for the child it was necessary ""to get"" or go behind it from the periphery to the center, passed long ago. Today any, even it is possible to buy the most improbable children's toy easily in the nearest shop or to order online. But together with abundance the new problem came - as it is correct to choose a children's toy? Let's consider 3 basic rules.
The more simply - the better!
You look at a toy the child's eyes. For example, popular soft toy ""Speaking Bear"". He is able ""to say"" when you press to it a stomach, is able to close and open eyes and even to dance. But, strangely enough, such toy only prevents to concentrate to the kid - he cannot understand what it should do? To press a stomach? To force to dance? Or to put on a floor that the bear opened eyes? In this regard, psychologists give simple advice - each toy for the child has to perform one function. Only thus the child learns the simple rule: ""action is equal to the investigation"".
Let the child will show activity
When choosing a toy for the child us, adults, such qualities as elegance of execution, existence of difficult details or mechanisms, surprising properties, etc. attract in it. However you should not forget that the child will play with it, and in the course of the game he has to develop surely. Let's review an example.
Most of adults at first sight likes the Japanese toy of Aibo. It is a doggie which for many can quite replace the true canine friend. She is able to wag a tail, to respond to caress, to bark also many other things. Of course, it seems to us that the child will be glad to play with such gift.
And now we will listen to experts: ""At a game with similar toys, whether it be Aibo or a clockwork engine, - Anna Yushina says, the psychologist of the center ""Healthy Children"" - in a game is lost its main developing component. A game becomes usual mechanical process, the child is limited in actions and can only press the include button or get an engine.""
But in the meantime the kid has to have a total freedom of actions. The toy has to attract interest, desire to learn ""that inside"". The child has to sort (not to break) and to bring together a toy back. Even if these actions for us, adults, will be monotonous, for children they are a fine training and exercises for mind, ingenuity, fine motor skills.
Do not complicate
Game for the child has to be independent process. Any toy has to contain simple and clear reference points for the child. A fine example of a simple toy - a matryoshka. She cannot be collected incorrectly and thus the matryoshka itself ""prompts"" to the child an order of the correct actions.
Of course, it is the most general requirements to the choice of toys. We did not speak about hygiene standards, about ethics of some toys and many other. However already in the nearest future we will return to this question and we will talk about how it is correct to make a purchase on the Internet.