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In life, since having a baby, in order to develop children's intelligence and cultivate children's interests, many parents will take a lot of trouble in choosing toys.
However, sometimes buying toys can also trigger a small family conflict, because in the eyes of many parents, the more toys the child, the better, and in the eyes of the elderly, constantly adding new toys to the child is a wasteful performance.
So is it a good thing or a bad thing that children's toys are more? Does the number of toys have an effect on a child's mental development?
Is it good that children have more toys? Pedagogy experts give answers, and most parents are wrong
Not long ago, I received a private message from a treasure mother in the background.
Bao Mom said that she and her family had a big dispute over the matter of buying toys for their children, and the family felt that there were five or six toys for the baby, and there was no need to buy so much.
But Bao Mom believes that toys are very important for the growth of children, not only to soothe emotions, but also to develop intelligence.
And because Bao Mom was made by family conditions when she was a child, she did not get a lot of her favorite toys, so after her daughter was born, out of a self-compensating psychology, Bao Mom began to continuously buy toys for her daughter, and there were five or six kinds of educational toys that were built alone.
In real life, many parents have the same psychology as this mother, believing that the more children's toys, the better.
Is this really the case?
Cathy Silva, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, led a team to do a study on this.
They selected 3,000 children aged 3 to 5 and followed them up, and found that among these children, the children with fewer toys at home had a significantly higher IQ than those who had a lot of toys at home.
Kathy also explained this.
She believes that the reason for this result is that it is difficult for children with too many toys to concentrate on one thing, and there are fewer toys at home, and children will focus on one thing and play with limited toys into unlimited play, which is more conducive to the development of children's thinking.
This answer also surprises many parents, but it is undeniable that parents do have some negative effects on adding toys to their children without restraint.
Too many toys for children is not a good thing, parents should pay attention to the following two points:
1. Too many toys can distract your child
When children only have one or two toys, their attention is often highly focused on these two toys, and many children will play different tricks with limited toys in order to find fun.
In this process, children's imagination and creativity are constantly improving.
On the contrary, if parents continue to buy toys for their children, children will face a variety of choices every day, which makes it difficult for them to concentrate on a toy, often this toy plays for a while, that toy plays for a while, in the end it is only superficial, and does not let the role of the toy play to the extreme.
2. Children do not know how to cherish
For children, when they have a beloved toy, they will inevitably be very cherished in a certain period of time, but if parents update toys for their children one after another, then children will inevitably form a psychology of liking the new and tired of the old, and disdain the old toys.
Over time, children will not cherish this kind of easy access to things, on the contrary, some children will form a selfish psychology.
Parents choose toys for their children, the following 3 categories are preferred:
1. Picture book toys
In the eyes of many parents, picture books are books rather than toys, in fact, picture books for children to improve cognition and expression has a very important role, there are many toys on the market that combine picture book stories, such as story machines.
Parents buy picture book toys for their children, which is good for children's brain development and creativity cultivation, while for children over three years old, they can directly buy paper books.
2. Sports toys
Jump rope, balls, roller skating, etc. are sports toys, for school-age children to buy sports toys can not only help children exercise, but also exercise children's balance ability, stimulate brain development, promote height growth.
3. Educational toys
Educational toys are also one of the toy types that many parents recognize very much, and the chess and cards, puzzles, building blocks, etc. in educational toys can help children improve their imagination and spatial thinking skills.
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