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Toddler toys, like my childhood itself, different things to different people. The parent company average European or American, is a toy, the young remain entertained and distracted. Now more than ever convinced that it can be supported with multiple intelligences in the early years, toy manufacturers are targeting their products to children may be disappointed, keep occupied and educated. For example, the toys should help the child develop his motor skills, and play with him in fantasy and secrecy. Many toy manufacturers are constantly seeking products that are not only, but also to promote the physical development to promote the emotional and intellectual support. Yet the sad fact is that they have purchased a toy store to come to stimulate specific for toys, global growth. So it is with parents, especially the mother, in order to make rational decisions on the purchase of toys. Claudia Jones in their book “Parents are teachers too,” he cited the importance of the task and how to put up and moved to 2 stages of learning, and suggested that toys are appropriate for each stage: Sensorimotor Stage This is the period from birth to 1 ½ -2 years for the theater, where, if an object is hidden, is no longer available. Towards the end of the first year the child begins to realize that just because an object is not visible, does not mean that there’s more. When she starts words with objects (Word Association), and to grasp the concept of representation is fixed, so he is ready, in the second period. Search for toys: Shape sorting toy, toys, puzzles animal, gnarled and deformed toys, tactile toys and stack, stack and sort toys and others of a similar nature are wonderful toys for children at this time. What do these toys: Most of these toys stimulate the imagination of a child to increase his language development and build his skills. The period of preoperational This phase follows the sensorimotor period and lasts up to 6 ½ to 7 years. (Ms. Jones reminded the parents that the transition from one phase), the other is not abrupt and definitive. This second phase in which the child is an issue full of judges. During the preoperational child is aware only of his point of view. Search for toys: Toys washable poster paint (such as Melissa and Doug wooden tripod stand deluxe), double-set toys (eg, bedroom, living room sets, kitchen sets, etc.), mini-scooters, office toys, cards (ie: right turn, left turn), catch and shoot basketball toys, books, activities, memory games, kit plane, stick ‘em toys, toy piggy bank (ie: Money Savvy Pig), etc. What do these toys: These toys encourage creativity, allowing children to make their own decisions, to give them a sense of control, leading to a feeling of playing safety, build capacity to promote a strategy for the group, and especially to promote the involvement of parents. The period of concrete operations At the age of 7, a child understands the concepts of conservation and the relationship between a whole and its parts. His thinking seems quite logical to adults, but has a difficult time dealing with abstract ideas. The period of formal operations With nearly 11 years, the child enters this period, which lasts until 14 or 15 The child learns to see beyond reality. He can imagine the potential of things and ideas. All this led him to argue for adults. The Bottom Line The decision of parents see children’s toys to buy toys for those who through the eyes of a child, and that goes beyond this view to see how it will develop the child in all areas. The decision to buy a toy that is, apart from actually buying. The window should be such as to what the toy does not look to the development of multiple intelligences of a child, and while the child is with great pleasure and satisfaction.