Games and toys

Recently I commented on how important it is not to give too many toys to a child and I proposed some alternative gifts that would also make them happy and help stimulate their imagination to a greater extent than a toy. One of them was to give experiences to your children, such as trips or walks.

As parents we always want to give our children the best. From the moment we know they are on their way, our perspective on life changes and now having everything necessary for them becomes a priority. We are constantly looking for ways to make our children happy, giving them the best care we can, checking that they lack nothing, listening to them and giving them things that make them happy.

One of the biggest risks of a domestic accident in babies and children is the risk of suffocation because they are so curious that they put everything in their mouths. Precisely, it is in the mouth where they have more developed terminations that give them information about objects (more than their hands), and consequently, to know them, they are taken there where they can suck them, bite them and discover their hardness, temperature, texture, etc.

As you know, I am the father of three children. Three children who have not had much interest in dollhouses, even though they had one. Three children who at some point in their childhood we offered the possibility of buying some Sylvanian family (I love them), and preferred something else. That's why I usually say that I would have loved to have a girl, because of having, perhaps (that you know), more likely that she would have liked something like that.

Being a mother or father in these times has brought us many advantages thanks to technology and the constant discoveries that are made every day. Unfortunately, just as advances are made that make maternity easier, there are also situations that should alert us and that in previous years did not exist.

From time to time, some new toy out of the traditional comes to market, causing opinions divided between parents. Many times we asked ourselves what the manufacturers were thinking when they decided it was a good idea. Perhaps it was a marketing mistake and they did not think deeply about the possible negative points that their new product could have or simply did not do their previous research well.

Surely a couple of Christmas days you are tired of some noisy toys. Precisely those that are the ones that the boy or girl seems to like most among all the gifts of Santa Claus. But, if the noisy toy has no volume control, it may be best to turn it off, as it can be harmful to children.

Christmas is coming and it is a good time to reflect on children's gifts. Sometimes gifts accumulate in a spiral that is not good for them in many ways. Let's see why having many gifts does not benefit your children. You have probably witnessed other years of how many of the children have received gifts at a fast pace, so they have not yet had time to uncover a package, just discover what is inside, and they already have another next to unwrap .

In the world of children there are several absolute truths that parents know, and some that we do not know and that, until we discover them, cause us some trouble. For example, we know that children have no problem throwing pedets or pooping where they are (they don't think about what others will say if it smells bad), and we know they have no problem asking "why" a lot of times, as if suddenly they wanted to know absolutely everything.

There is a toy that is causing rage among the little ones, they all ask for it in their letters to Santa Claus and the Magi. It is sold out in stores and those who are lucky enough to get one keep it as if it were an egg of a race in extinction. It is not, but almost. Hatchimals is a plastic egg that hides inside a virtual pet that is not yet born.

I don't know what your opinion is about Barbie dolls, but if something is clear, they seem very little like real women and that, in some cases, they can affect girls' diet (there are studies that show that girls who play with Barbies they eat less than those who play with less thin dolls).

We have already noticed by the television commercials that Christmas is coming. The time of the year in which more toys are sold and in which more children visit the toy stores. Although not for all of them it is easy to enter a toy store. For example, if you are afraid of loud sounds and lights, or if there are too many people.

We are in October and that means that many parents are already thinking about the Christmas season, for what we are going to give to our children, and for what we are going to tell family members who want to give something to our children. I suppose that like all parents at this time we are saying that "This year, no toys."

Toys are play instruments and children love them, but how many toys should they have? where is the limit? Allie Casazza, mother of four children felt really overwhelmed by the amount of toys that were at home, by the impossible disorder without ordering everything to be a disaster after five minutes.

There are no boys and girls toys. Toys are game instruments that do not imply that their use is exclusively for one sex or the other. That the balls are for boys and dolls for girls is a stereotype often present on television, in catalogs, in toy ads, and even in the speech of many adults.

Summer evenings are long, very long and there is time for everything, even to get bored. There are numerous psychologists and educators who argue that boredom is key to developing the imagination and creativity of the little ones in the house. But everything has a limit and a solution, today we bring you 13 ideas to have a good time with our children in these long summer afternoons in which we are involved, surely you can think of some more and surely they work creating great family moments with The smallest.

The baby's dream is one of the issues that most concern recent parents. Not for less, when it is estimated that in the first year of the baby, parents lose more than 700 hours of sleep. The desperation of many of them has led to the emergence of all kinds of products designed to help the little ones sleep.

The trampolines provide hours of fun for the little ones, especially in summer, but they are not harmless. According to EU data, there are about 51,000 injuries in children under 14 years of age related to trampolines that are serious enough to go to the emergency room.

That Spanish education has much to improve in many aspects is more than evident, but it is also very true that we are increasingly learning more stories of teachers who are taking small steps in that change. Today we meet Manuel, professor at the Angeles Cuesta de Marchena school, Seville. Manuel Sánchez Montero is committed to encouraging the participation of children in the social activities of the classroom and for that he has realized that developing gamification in the classroom is a sure success method.

Now, the usually "dark" David Lynch lands in the most childish universe with a game "The Journey of Alvin", a road-app or a story to play with based on one of his most tender films "A true story." “A true story” was based on a true event and told the “adventure” that an old man from a city in the interior of the United States lives who decides to visit his brother before he dies.