Showing posts with label Buying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buying. Show all posts

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Buying toys for children

One way to help skills, develop your child is theirs, have pledged to buy toys, and inspire. This guide offers useful advice for parents looking to buy baby toys.

How to choose toys for your child?

At the time of his life the child is still discovering the world in which they live and in their abilities, such as climbing, running and jumping. There is no doubt that the choice of a toy, and stimulates the child meetscan be a real challenge. It 'so important that you always sure to have their interests and needs in mind and know what skills they have or develop as they grow.

What value has a toy must have small children?

- Stimulus (sensory - see eg noise, smell, touch, etc.)
- One outlet for their creativity
- Freedom
- Monitoring
- Support
- Challenges

What kind of toys should I buyfor my child?

As children very restless very quickly need a significant amount of control and interaction. Therefore, several factors are considered before deciding. The following information highlights the kind of toys you should buy depends on the age of your child.

1 year - 1.5 years - on average, many children begin to walk started, if they are aged one year. This new feature, which will do mucheager to explore their new environment, so what the development of their leg muscles and their motor skills.

Recommended toys: stuffed animals, blocks, rocking ride-on and simple musical instruments.

1.5 years - 2 years: - After the preliminary stage to go, the children begin to develop their imagination and color of their interest in the problems to be solved, as it is able to match objects according to certain criteria (,Shape or size). This period of growth is also talking with them and learn a surprising number of new words.

Recommended toys: dolls, dolls, gambling houses, balloons, puzzles, costumes, history books and climbing plants.

2 years - 3 years: - During this stage of your child grows up as to imitate adults, coordination and control and to express their views.

Recommended toys: Tricycles, blackboard and chalks, pastels,Pasta, stuffed animals and water.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Activities for children to stay at home for moms

Here are several fun activities for children that I do with my children and they are free!

Town Library

There are so many different activities that the library has to offer.

First Check your local library for all activities or classes. Our library puppets. You're funny and entertaining, and above all it's free.

According to these books and other fun stuff like toys, puzzles, and everything you can imagine.

Third Most libraries havea wonderful section for children. Spend some time reading to each other.

Parks Playgrounds

There are so many activities for children in the park that I have a couple of days a week when we go to the park.

Get the first bread to feed the ducks and spend an afternoon.

According love children swings, slides, climbing, digging in the sand and can spend hours to do it for free.

Buy a third pair of baseball gloves and a tennis ball and play catch for a while '. Or perhaps aFrisbee. My daughter loves to play catch.

Window Shopping

Before you go into a store with lots of toys. Let me see them and play with everything. My daughter loves this, and it's free. Just be sure to tell your child to be seen as the front and play, not to buy.

According to Go to the mall. Our mall has a small playground, which is free. Another great idea is, take the pet store. May they ride the animals and watch the fish. Children loveAnimals.

These are just a couple of free activities for children who stay at home moms. Protect your child is involved in many beneficial ways. The game can be active and to help with their development. ENJOY!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Things Parents Can Do to Develop Kids' Motor Skills

As the parent of a young child you may be wondering what you can do to help foster the development of motor skills. Motor skills are extremely important building blocks for a number of academic skills that your child will need when entering school. There are a lot of activities that parents can do with their child to help enhance their fine and gross motor skills. Many people don't realize how these skills can affect a child. The development of motor skills allows them to perform better in other, more academic and physical ways. Basically motor skills are divided into two groups: fine and gross.

Fine motor skills are those skills which involve the manipulation of the hands and fingers in conjunction with vision (also known as hand-eye coordination). Gross motor skills are those that involve the use of any large muscle group. In the early years of childhood development having the right activities for your child can help them develop and hone their motor skills. Here are some things parents can do to help promote the development of motor skills.

- Fine motor skills - These are the skills that allow you to develop the ability to do such things as write and manipulate small objects. Try these simple activities to help your children along the way.

1. Coloring is perhaps one of the easiest ways to help your child develop their fine motor skills. Coloring books have a variety of levels from the simplest shapes to far more complicated pictures. You can have your child use crayons, markers, colored pencils or even chalk. For some freehand coloring try putting up paper on a small easel, on the wall or even on a door to give your child a new perspective.

2. Painting. Try alternating between large, stubby brushes and smaller, finer brushes. The smaller the brush is, the more control the child will need over their hands. Also try getting your kids to do some painting with cotton swabs. This affords some really fine work and allows them to develop their pincer grip which is needed for learning how to write. Have your kids try finger-painting, stamping and even sidewalk painting for some added variety.

3. Puzzles-For younger children; it may work best to start them off with large peg puzzles. These are puzzles that have a little knob sticking out of each puzzle piece. This allows them to gain more control over their finger movement. For starter puzzles you can buy them with very large knobs that require a full fisted grip then you can move onto the puzzles that require a thumb and forefinger grip (pincer grip).

- Gross Motor Skills - These are the big motor skills; i.e. running, jumping and hopping etc. They require balance and coordination. To help develop these try some of these activities-

1. Running. Create a game that requires moving quickly. This is great for encouraging the development of gross motor coordination.

2. Climbing. Take them to the park and let them climb all over the jungle gyms. Climbing seems to be an innate characteristic of children. You may have noticed it when they started climbing onto the coffee table as a toddler! Each time they try, they will get a little better because they are developing those important gross motor muscles.

3. Hopping. Set up a game of hopscotch. All that hopping about is really about developing some balance.

4. Encourage ball play. Kicking, rolling and throwing are some great ways to encourage gross motor development and you will not need anything more that a ball and a little bit of room. Smaller balls require a little finer control but you should aim to get a ball that can be easily picked up. A very large ball for a younger child can be difficult to manipulate and get very frustrating, very fast.