Today, parents feel pressured to start using technology to train their children in the womb. For example, BabyPlus Prenatal Education System promises to "give your child an advantage" of rhythmic patterns to stimulate early learning. It is time, therefore, a step back and assess the true value of toys to teach the technique to take over.
Toys that are made from high-tech electronics embedded with semiconductor chips are generally known as edutainment toys. TheQuality and substance of their play may be limited by the number of buttons a child can push. Some promise to a child, allowing him to interact with educational content to learn a challenge. offers Thus, for example, V. Smile Baby Infant Development system designed to introduce interactive learning for children from 9 months to 3 years. You can watch videos with this educational system buttons or on a tray to influence what happens on a TV screen.
Some old toys Even the addition electronic gadgets appeal to the current generation of technologically sophisticated children. Dolls interact with the Internet. Wooden Brio trains make electronic sounds and can be controlled by infrared remote controls. The classic Fisher-Price Rock-A-Stack now also in a version of Dance Dance Baby, whose center rod lights up and plays songs when the rings are stacked on them.
Toys Open vs. closed
A toy encourages the free open> Game with an unlimited number of results. For example, a building will be used to construct a series of different structures. A Toys closed, on the other hand, has a limited and often soon exhausted the results.
Not all toys are closed badly. After all, a truck turned a classic educational toy: it can be shared in a fair to put. However, to resolve a wallet, a child needs to develop and use logic and motor skills. The child hasThe rematch with the pieces of a stacker, manipulating them or your fingers over and over and think about how they fit together until the solution dominates, and then repeated for pleasure.
A closed edutainment toys, the other party may need to press one child, some buttons. Finally, it leads to a dead end and the child gets bored and throws the toy aside. As Martha B. Bronson notes in The Right Stuff for Children Birth to Eight, although aKids can play a wealth of experience in every toy, Basic, open toys encourage this type of experience more than rigidly programmed toys with only one or two functions to do. This type of edutainment toy is not timeless. And 'to be replaced as soon as possible the next big thing in edutainment product that the latest technological innovations in applications.
Often people assume that toys that use new technologies are more innovative and educational institutions as non-technologicalEducational toys. In fact, the issue of childhood specialists such as Jane Roberts (President of Young Media Australia, a consumer advocacy group), such as educational and interactive high-tech edutainment toys really are notes that "[i] Ressing keys and elements to do what is for you, rather limited in terms of how children learn. "Furthermore, many traditional toys are becoming more innovative about Fostering a child's imagination and creativity, with no electronics in them.For example, the blocks in the game FoxMind Clik for a variety of games for children and adults are equally difficult to use.
The negative effects of Edutainment Toys
Overall, parents might want children to promote especially the younger ones, often use of edutainment toys, TVs and computer screens included. The authors of "effects of television consumption Preschool children in first grade," found that preschoolers who watched more television than theirPeers are in school and were not socialized well when they entered the first grade. Researcher, Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis found the children see that the Baby Einstein DVDs and videos scored lower on language skills of children who had never seen before.
In addition, Sloan Allison is in the Shopper's Guide to Healthy, emit green toys, computers and televisions electromagnetic fields ", invisible force fields to sleep their possible health effects of headacheDisorders, cancers, are the subject of heated debate. Children's brains are developing the greatest danger from such outside influences.
A final caution about edutainment toys is that children in foster acceptance of a disposable consumer culture. A timeless toy, how to conduct a series of unit blocks of wood under heavy use for generations and can simultaneously from children (and adults!) A variety of age play. Edutainment toys on the opposite sideusually played with one child at a time, and usually have a shorter season and a lifetime. Children learn quickly and get bored, or break their high-tech components, making it useless toy, and then are discarded, toxic chemicals and metals into the environment.
What parents can do
As the technology and the Internet penetrate society and people's lives more and more, imagine that makes sense for kids, computers and other inventionsmust use when they are old. A toy is not necessarily bad or useless, because it meets the art. That is, intelligent parents declared aim is to be considered an edutainment toy, evaluate how and what is taught, and determine if their children could receive equal or greater value from a simpler, classic toy. Roberts warns of the dangers of a parent with high-tech toys such as baby sitting, and replace the interaction with a machine as a single player game for PCWhat should be the best learning outcomes of real-life experiences of children, "when the construction of the model to explore and develop their own initiatives through play."
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