Toys are an integral part of early and growing years of a child. There is a sea of choices available to choose from when it comes to toys. Here are a few point to help you out with choosing the toys that help your child not only play and explore but learn and grow as well.

Toys that Trigger – Toys that trigger your child’s imagination are a good idea. Toys like blocks, food items toys, stuffed animals, doll houses wherein you child is able to make stories and act them with the help of pretend play. Pretend play can help hone their language skills and more.

Play based Skill Development – Toys like puzzles, clay, blocks and shapes can help your child explore, create as well has think logically. These activities can help them hone their problem solving skills, hand-eye coordination, spatial relation and motor skills.

Inter-generational play Toys – As your child crosses the age of 3, try out game nights where the family sits together and plays. Go for simple ones first. Playing together as a family will not only help hone the bonding, language skills but also their skills around counting, memory and matching.

Mix and Match – Have different sorts of toys, so the child is not bored and gets to learn a lot of different things through play. With online shopping at the click of a button, you can get access to a whole world full of toys making the whole process hassle free

Toys do have the age group information printed on them, so go for age appropriate toys, toys that are able to transform play room into a place to learn while they play.

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]]> https://www.vydehischool.com/blog/school/toys-and-toddlers/feed/ 0 https://www.vydehischool.com/blog/rehabilitation/barbie-now-available-in-prosthetic-and-wheelchairs-representing-inclusiveness/ https://www.vydehischool.com/blog/rehabilitation/barbie-now-available-in-prosthetic-and-wheelchairs-representing-inclusiveness/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2019 05:59:12 +0000 https://www.vydehischool.com/blog/?p=1762 Continue reading →]]> The awareness around inclusiveness is increasing across the world with schools opting for inclusive curriculums to help children learn in an environment of equal opportunity and endless possibility. The brand Barbie, which has been a hot favorite amongst kids for years now has decided to elevate the conversation around physical disabilities by including a fashion doll line with disabilities in the June Season. As per the Barbie representative, they wanted to showcase a multidimensional view of beauty a well as fashion. They created the doll with a prosthetic limb by collaborating with a disability activist 13 years of age. For the wheelchair design they collaborated with wheelchair experts and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and is known to be the most requested accessories from Fans of Barbie. As per Mattel the chair designed for Barbie is the ones that is used by individuals who have permanent physical disability.

The objective behind creating this dolls with disabilities is to create awareness and remove the stigma around disabilities and work towards creating an environment of inclusivity and make people understand that there is nothing wrong to have disability. As per Mizrahi, president of Respectability, a group of people that advocate disabilities said that it was important for us to reflect humanity the way it is in our culture be it products, toys and apparently everything around. She added that Barbie, by launching dolls with wheelchair and prosthetic has joined those power brands who understand that marketing and inclusion of people who have disabilities is not only right but profitable too.

The Barbie brand is trying to incorporate diversity in the dolls and hence the recent ones of 2019 fashionistas line will be seen having more realistic body types like smaller bust, more defined arms and less defined waists, to name a few. It will also add different skin and eye colors, hairstyles like braids as well as clothing. It was in 2017 when Mattel had introduced the Hijab donning Barbie and now in 2019 the toymaker is considering same gender Barbie wedding set as well.

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