Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Children Is Your Time

The greatest gift you can give your children is your time. And one of the greatest gifts you will give yourself is that of enjoying your kids and seeing them for what they truly are: The small miracles of life - Robin Sharma

Author unknown

Sometimes you get discouraged because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints on furniture and walls.

But every day I’m growing – I’ll be grown up someday
And all those tiny handprints will surely fade away

So here’s a final handprint just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked when I was very small.

The poem depicts how children grow up so quickly. It is easy to promise yourself that you will spend more time with them when your work and personal schedules slow down. You tell yourself I will get down on the ground and play with them tomorrow. But tomorrow turns into the next day, which turns into a week and a week turns into a month, the month turns into the year and before you know it, your kids have grown up and have families of their own. Remember this is it! These years with your children will never repeat. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are your time. And one of the greatest gifts you will give yourself is that of enjoying your kids and seeing them for what they truly are: The small miracles of life

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Friday, February 8, 2008

High Quality Toys


Toys come under several different categories. The three main categories that we may be able to sort them into are baby toys, children toys and grown up toys. Baby toys are considered the easiest to make but they require a lot of brain storming to come up with. To produce one toy that will in no way harm an infant is a serious job. Some of these toys are high quality for their production as well as their ideas. The stuffed toys are the easiest to make but other toys that a baby actually uses to learn how to speak or walk are considered high quality toys.

Children toys raise the bar a bit. They include a far more superior range of toys that require the use of the mind as well as the skill to put it together or operate it on the whole. It is a totally new experience for the child to learn something on his/her own. Action figures like transformers, bay blades, GI Joes, power rangers and ninja turtles can be considered as high quality toys. These items are the result of very detailed plans from a number of people. They are created to look real and have a similar effect on the children as the cartoons have.

Grown up toys on the other hand have a wide range of things in them. They could be cars, machinery of other sorts, cellular phones, computers and in some cases the tools that a man owns. The journey of the exploration of these toys is the game that adults usually enjoy. These are high quality toys for adults who are busy earning during the day or at times during the night. They play with them to relax and enjoy and to get retain a little amount of sanity in their lives. Such high quality toys keep evolving thus maintaining the grown up’s interest within them and their exploration.

Baby Toys


Babies are cute bundles of joy that can bring a smile to anyone’s face. They are too delicate to handle sharp and pointy toys. They need soft and cuddly toys to play with. The general idea is to give them stuffed toys, which they may be able to hold on to while they are sleeping or awake. Either way they get to play with these toys without causing themselves bodily harm. Baby toys are not just stuffed toys but little blunt plastic objects like keys and rattlers as well. Babies play with these toys. The park strollers and other such accessories can be used by the mothers and nannies.

Technical toys like action figures and Lego do not come under the list of toys that are advisable for young babies. The tiny little accessories that come with them are hazardous for an infant’s health. They may swallow a piece and risk their lives by choking on it; which is why such toys are not suitable for babies and are not a wise choice for babies to play with. The sharp edges on these finely carved and molded figures may injure an eye or prick the sensitive skin of the baby.

Soft and blunt toys like stuffed animals, big piece puzzles and rattlers with smooth edges are the most widely used baby toys in the world. They are safe and do not cause any harm to the baby. The tiny little accessories that come with action figures and other technical toys are dangerous for an infant’s health. He or she will not perceive the hazard the small item carries with it. Not only this but all baby toys need to be clean to the core. A baby has a low immune system and in case a particular toy that the baby cuddles is carrying a germ, he/she may be infected. Hygiene should be the top most priority.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Children's Educational Toys


Everyone wants their child to become a doctor or engineer or s successful businessman. No doubt, every child has the potential but it needs to be churned. For this, one needs to build up interest of the child. Every child isn’t born a scholar. The grass root education matters a lot for child to gather pace to become something in life. How this starts? The answer is from your own home. There is no doubt that home can be called the first school of the child where a child learns everything. To make child acquainted with the things, the toys play an important role.

Educational toys always play an important role for letting the child to learn things. A child is blank and from the medium of toys he starts understanding things. In his early childhood, toys are his best friend as they keep surrounding him for most part of the day. So imparting education through educational toys is a novel idea. When a child is in early childhood, he grabs the things in fastest manner through play and there educational toys plays their role. Educational toys can make him learn new things and also provide fun and happiness to child as these are toys and a child loves to play with toys. Thus through educational toys a child can grab more rather than any other means.
Market is flooded with different types of educational toys but it is up to you to select which kind of toy for your preschooler child. To select educational toys you should have criteria to select them and following questions will help you to decide the criteria:

• Do you want to increase the imagination power of your child or need an educational toy?
• Is there some weakness in your child which you want to correct?
• What are the strengths of your child?
• Is the educational toy you are selecting for your child, meant for his age?
• Is the toy holds good reputation and holds plenty of good reviews that the toy will help your child in making his basics sound and clear?
• If other parents have used the same educational toy for their child, was it beneficial and seemed to work?
These are some questions which help you to make choice for educational toys for your child. You should forget that only educational toys are not meant to be bought for your child. For proper growth along with educational toys your child needs toys which are imaginative and should help in overcoming his weakness and making his strengths stronger. In other words, you need to have a balanced collection of electronic toys, educational toys and those toys which your child likes most like dolls, building blocks, and action icons. One must understand this thing that each child is different and it is not imperative that if one child loves educational toys, the other one also should have the same taste for educational toys and must should not force his/ her wishes on child at such a fancy age as it is the age where the child grows and the way he grows builds up the stage for his future.

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