1. Before 1 year old-children's toy dominated by sensory stimulation
Before 1 year old, the child's various senses are developing. Hearing is one of the most sensitive senses. The senses of smell, taste, vision, and touch all have a gradual development process. Therefore, the baby's world at this time is very simple, and proper sensory stimulation is needed to make the baby use these parts of the body more.
Such as: children's toys used to stimulate hearing: sand hammers, small hippocampus, fitness mats, etc.; visual stimulation toys: black and white flash cards, multi-color flash cards, etc.
2. 1-3 years old-children's toy led by perceptual training
(1) Children's toys that promote baby's physical movement
For example, baby strollers, wooden horses, slides, stairs, etc., babies need better physical exercises to provide adequate nutrition for the body and brain development. Don't believe in the all-purpose milk powder that is higher than the sky. No matter how much you eat, you can only eat fat. Doing more exercise can make your baby secrete more hormones suitable for its growth and development, especially nutrients that promote brain development.
Everyone must remember one sentence: Exercise is the best nutrition for children.
(2) Don't play passively interactive children's toys
There are many high-tech electric children's toys on the market, such as robots, bears that can talk, and e-reading books. Children only need to press a few buttons to make the toys move by themselves. The children only need to stay there and watch them. Looking at the tall, in fact, these children's toys not only cannot help the child, but may also have a negative impact on the child's attention. Like TV, children will only receive information passively, instead of actively using their brains. Playing with these children's toys too much will make the baby's head lazy.
Of course, these children’s toys are not completely useless. They can exercise children’s logical thinking to a certain extent. Automatic children’s toys with special dialogue functions can also stimulate children’s interest in speaking, especially for those who have suffered trauma and need to be cured. For children.
(3) Toys that promote intellectual development
For example, it is very helpful for children to recognize and respond to professional toys in terms of shape, color, language, and sound. how to choose? The simple way is to refer to the introduction of big-name children's toys and age-appropriate suggestions. But again, no matter how good the toy is, it is better for children to develop better than physical exercise. Children who exercise are smarter.