Play is serious

Play is serious: true! As a parent you must select the toys that enter in your house and in your child room, but why?

The toys can influence your child behavior. Some toys in the market can support your child socialization, others could stimulate abilities and much more.

According to Claire McCarthy, MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing, there are three types of toys that could really help your child development.

Let’s see which are them?

Play with toys that require creativity and imagination

The toys that require creativity and imagination can be used in different ways and the child can explore it and learn at the same time.

Some examples of this kind of toys are:

Blocks: it can be wooden plain or building sets, because you can build lots of different things.
Paper: with a simple paper you can draw, you can do an origami, do a book and much more. It is nice also colorful papers!
Painting materials: you can use the paper to paint, or do it in a canvas, your body, a fabric, a wooden piece, a box and lots of other alternatives.
Doll house: the simpler the best! It is nice if people could go inside. It could stimulate boys and girls. They will love playing there!
Car, trains, boats, airplanes, helicopters: the simple model is the best, not electronic. To complete this, you can buy or do a city playmat or tracks and streets that could be rearranged.
Kitchen: a play kitchen is an adorable way of using creativity and imagination.
Dress up clothes: you can put in a box different things like different hats, capes, glasses, etc.

With those toys, in the beginning the kids can think it is boring, which is good, because it will stimulate them to get out of the comfort zone and create, use imagination.

If you always entertain your child, he/she will not learn how to do it independently.

After some time, the child will play more and more with it!

Play with interactive toys

Interact with your child playing is an excellent way of helping them to do connections in their brain.

It stimulates them a lot, help them to do connections in their brain and also help them to create a relationship with the parents and caregivers, which is fundamental for the emotional health of the child.

You can play with:

Game boards: there are lots of excellent examples, like chess, monopoly, Ticket to Ride, checkers and lots of others;
Build a model: it could be an airplane, a train or something that your child likes;
Tent: you can go for a big camping or just do a tent under the table at home with your child;
Walkie-talkies: you can talk funny things with your child.

Play with moving toys

Toys that makes your child move is very health and help he/she to develop more and more.

For example: