Family Tips

Shop toys often aren’t popular among kids, as they have a little in common with the surrounding world. It is not enough for the child that the toy was beautiful or amusing. Perhaps, with the clockwork railway he will play longer, assembling and disassembling the rails, observing as the train goes.

Adults frequently have deformed representations about the values of this or that toy based on their own children’s impressions. The kid with curiosity studies subjects surrounding him and especially reacts to that, which gives him the «pleasure of achievement» and satisfies his need in creativity.

Books are not only for reading, and bricks are not only for construction.
With our limited imagination we, adults, believe that the book is only for reading and the bricks are only for building.

Books and bricks are usually the first toys of the child. Adults impose to the child their own representations how to play with them. If the child plays in his own way, it means the purpose is achieved irrespective of how he plays. Correcting him means preventing his creative development or even bereaving desire to play at all.

He can use the book as a tunnel, or to draw on it, or to tear it. It is better not to give books at all, than to insist, that he only read them. When an interest to reading appears, he will understand that the most interesting thing about books is reading.

It is boring for the child to play with a manufactured toy which can be used only one way. Whatever expensive the toy is, it has no value, if the child cannot do something with it by hands or use it according to his rich imagination.

Almost all parents have experienced it. The child doesn’t need many toys: he or she needs a few, but useful toys.