Develop Your Child’s Imagination Through Toys
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
If you’ve wandered the aisles of a toy store recently you might be forgiven for scratching your head a little bit. After all, today’s children’s toys are a combination of super hero movie promotions, microprocessors, and video games. Classic toys like baby dolls, building blocks and toy soldiers are buried beneath the piles of flashing gimmicks. But are these modern electronic toys really good for kids?
Electronics and video game play is something that should be enjoyed in moderation. Classic toys, however, are intellectually engaging and stimulating for young minds and can be played with for hours on end.
Despite their complexity, in fact because of their complexity, electronic toys are very limiting for children. If you take basic, but inventive, toys like Kathe Kruse dolls and give them to a little girl she can make them whatever she wants to make them. The same claim cannot be made of so called “educational” electronic toys like the Leap Pad.
There’s a reason why generation after generation has enjoyed the same basic toys. A set of Kathe Kruse dollhouse dolls that’s purchased today is not fundamentally different from the dollhouse toys sold one hundred years ago.
When it comes to toys a child’s imagination is the only battery that’s required.
Tags: Kathe Kruse, Leap Pad
