What your child doesn’t need is ... seventy new toys a year, which is, by the way, what the average American child gets, but they need a few good, simple, open ended toys ... .
Toys don’t need to be interactive; a child need to interact with a toy. So a wooden block is fine because a child, when they pick it up and throw it, or when they pick it up and stack [them] ... or bang them together, they are interacting with it.
The best toys are ninety percent child, ten percent toy ... . They have actually done laboratory studies that show that toys with buttons, once the child figures out, ‘Okay, I press this button and then it bursts into Mozart’, they’re done with it… . This child is learning nothing more than how to press a button
Pamela Paul
Pamela Paul.com
Author of Parenting, Inc.
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