Content by Mitch Osborne
There are so many toys out there these days. It seems every other commercial on Direct tv is for a toy of some sort. 99% of toys today do all the playing for the kid. Have you noticed how all the toys these days light up, make sounds, talk, and basically entertain the child. All the kid has to do is sit down and watch the toy play by itself! And what’s worse, the manufacturers often want to claim that these toys are “educational” because they sing the alphabet or something. Kids need to explore toys, and be creative. Classic toys, like blocks, balls, even rocks and sticks, provide children with true “education” and problem solving skills. A child learns about gravity from a ball, about weight from bean bags, about math and patterns from blocks, etc. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on toys. In fact, the box is more educational for the kids then the actual toy. They create with the box, turning it into a house or something.
