Toy Store Observation

​Walk into any home with toddlers, and you will no doubt be able to tell whether the child is a boy or a girl by a quick peek into the playroom. Trucks, trains, planes, and baseballs will scream boy; while a room full of pink and frilly dolls and stuffed animals have little girl written all over it. Judith Elaine Blakemore, professor of psychology and associate dean of Arts and Sciences for Faculty Development at Indiana University and Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, professor at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut, did a research study about the impact of specific toys on play. They found that,

While some children were playing “house” others were taking part in constructive play. In this stage, toddlers have a deep understanding of what various objects can do and will now try to build things with the toys and everyday objects they find around them. One child had a box of blocks and was building a train track. Once he finished he assembled a line of trains to ride along the track he had just built. He repeatedly made noises that trains usually make such as “choo-choo.” Other children were interlocking Lego blocks and creating various structures while some were playing with play-dough and sculpting

Toys play quite an important role in children’s lives, along with their socialization. Kids spend a vast amount of time playing with toys, alone and with their peers or parents. In todays age when it comes time to buying gifts for children everything is color coded. There are many boundaries that separate

Friedrich Froebel had the idea that children learn best through play and by having real experiences and from these theories he was the founder of the first ever kindergarten in 1840 (Meggitt et al, 2011). Following the theory that children learn best through play, Frobel introduced toys that he called, ‘Froebel Gifts’ or ‘gaben’ which included balls, wooden blocks, rings, tiles and sticks which were all the key elements of Froebel’s kindergarten (Watson, 2002).

The types of toys children play with can affect how they develop. Toys can help or hinder a child’s development in intelligence, social skills and personality. Certain characteristics may be genetically entwined in a human being, but some characteristics and behaviors can be learned, from parents, surroundings, and the toys with which a youngster plays. Elise Moore, author of “How Do Toys Aid Development”, stated “if play is the work of the child, toys are the child’s tools” (Moore, 2).

Toys are artifacts created by humans that come in all shapes, sizes, and form used for entertainment, therapy, or simply to past time. One of the earliest toys was a doll made of stone that was estimated to be four thousand years old. What is really interesting is the fact that archaeologists have found that the majority of human civilization produced toys. Nowadays, toys are mass produced and have become an essential item in the human lifestyle. So much so that these toys have the ability to shape children or adults to act or be a certain way. Companies take advantage of their products and advertising to have customers continually buy their products so that these paying customers can achieve their desires. However, some products actually

I have the mom, dad, grandmother (gray hair), boy, 2 girls of slightly different sizes and a baby.

There were seventy-one children participating in the study. They were divided into three groups that ranged from 26-, 31-, and 36-month old children(between 2-3 years).The child was given an intelligence test that determined whether the kid had the ability to classify. They were able to observe and touch the male and female type toys. The children were given other activities that did or did not demonstrate their capability to

Banerjee and Lintern (2000) examined the salience of children’s preference for toys in private and public settings. Their findings indicate that younger children hold more rigid ideas of what kinds of toys their gender should be playing with, and that children would

On the fifth of February, I went to my church, Villa Rica Christian Church. In my church, there is a nursey for kids ranging from birth to two. I observed several toys that helped kids use their cognitive abilities to learn and chose the best three and one bad toy. The first toy was a rectangular box that has shaped holes on the lid. On the lid, there are four shapes—triangle, square, star, and circle. The second toy, is a panel with four different popups of Sesame Street characters. To trigger the popup, a kid has to either turn, press, or push a button. The third toy is a cube with different stations on each side except the bottom. The most effective sides include: a matching puzzle, and a rudimentary type of an abacus with five

Children’s physical developmental domain can start develop at infancy and block play can help them. They will learn how to pick up blocks and other items using different types of grasps such as pincer, and palmer grasps. The children will use

Since the beginning of time, toys have often been an indicator of the way a society behaves, and how they interact with their children. For example, in ancient Greece, artifacts recovered there testify that children were simply not given toys to play with as in the modern world. The cruel ritual of leaving a sick child on a hillside for dead, seems to indicate a lack of attention to the young (Lord 16). The same is true of today’s society. As you can see with the number of toy stores in our society, we find toys of great value to our lives and enjoy giving them to children as gifts. Ask just about any young girl what she wants for Christmas and you’ll undoubtedly get the same answer: “A Barbie.” But what exactly has caused

While observing the younger age group, I discovered a variety of interesting interactions and occurrences among the children. I was particularly surprised by how smart children can be at such a young age. In two different cases, a young boy named Kian, 1 year and 8 months, and a young girl named Finley, 1 year and 4 months, demonstrated their knowledge of basic skills when they both had found articles of clothing around the room and knew exactly what parts of their bodies they are to go. Kian found a hat and instantly put it on his head. While Finley, found a jacket and attempted to put it on the upper half of her body. Together the two demonstrated, normative cognitive development (Baltimore,

Toys like the Tamagotchis and Furbies are artificially intelligent toys that interact with children by “responding…[to their] behavior” (Turkle, 476). Often, children treat their Tamagotchis and Furbies differently than their other toys. In fact, the “other toys...are usually put aside” when broken, whereas, with their Tamagotchis and Furbies, children worry about the toys’ health and artificial life. Furthermore, Tamagotchis and Furbies “demand attention...” and without it “...they will not survive” (Turkle 464). These toys require work, and if a child is not willing to work, the toy will die. Moreover, work is not something many children enjoy doing. So, what makes the Tamagotchis and Furbies so

The Corporate name, founding date, founding leaders. Toys R Us Inc., founding date was 1948 and the founding leader was Charles P Lazarus. The company, which was originated in Washington D.C. was named Children’s Bargain Town.