Sometimes the most fun we had when Destiny Baby was younger was to roll a giant exercise ball around the house. He would love to play a human bowling pin and get knocked over by the giant orb. We had two–a big one that I bought to actually exercise with (that was a short-lived endeavor) […]
When your little one is riding around in the car seat, you’ve got to protect them from too much sunlight in the car, right? Well don’t get a dark, no-frills shade that just pulls down and blocks the sun and obscures their view. (Although I have to say nothing is quite boring to an enterprising […]
When it comes to buying toys featuring our kid’s favorite television characters like Diego or Dora the Explorer, it’s not just about buying any toy with the name of the character slapped on. As we’ve mentioned before, child development experts have repeatedly shown that the best kinds of toys encourage unstructured playtime and have multiple […]
We always knew LEGO toys were lots of fun, but did you know they make ideal educational learning toys, too? Besides the joy of engaging in creative play building model trains and buildings and other objects together with your little one, you can use simulations and model replicas while incorporating role play to provide […]
I recently came across an interesting article, “Rethinking Children’s Play” in the National PTA’s Our Children magazine. The article explains how children learn through play, then traces the changes in playtime and toys from the latter half of the 20th century until today, significantly noting that media-linked toys can be traced directly to FCC deregulation […]
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