From birth to the age of 6 years, children go through a series of complex and important processes of development.During this period, the body developed rapidly, the body grew comprehensively, and the brain and body basic functions developed rapidly, with the scope of life and mind, the need to participate in adult social life, the need to generate ownership and belonging, and to practice and form skills, emotions, attitudes, and values.But children's life is not a real adult life, which requires toys as substitutes, to imitate adult actions, behaviors and interrelationships in the way of games, to reflect the life around in the imaginary scene, forming the rules of life, so as to get joy and satisfaction.
Parents or preschool teachers should carefully observe, on the basis of understanding the whole growth and development process of children, specifically consider the current growth and development of children, according to the real needs of toys, targeted to choose toys, so as to effectively meet their needs for toys.
The function and utility of toys can be divided into the following categories:
One is used to mobilize the enthusiasm of children's activities.Toys can be freely played with, manipulated and used by children, in line with children's psychological hobbies and ability level, can meet the needs of their activities, improve the enthusiasm of activities.For example, "shake horse" toys, children will naturally ride, swing back and forth, not only to meet the requirements of their activities, and make them have positive and happy emotions, and for example, "doll" toys, can cause children to do a variety of activities, children of all ages according to their own life experience, with dolls to play games, can be from simple to complex, varied.
The second is to enhance the perceptual understanding, using the characteristics of the intuitive image of toys, children can touch, take, listen, blow, see, etc., is conducive to the training of various senses.For example, colored tower, blowing toys, plush toys, various toys and animal toys conducive to visual training, eight tone bear, small piano, tambourine, small speakers can train hearing; blocks, plastic pieces, structural models can develop space perception, various puzzles, inlaid toys, soft plastic toys can exercise touch feeling, duck carts, trolley, tricycle, two wheels and other contribute to the development of sports feeling.Toys, developing sensory and motor ability, not only enrich children's perceptual knowledge, but also help to consolidate the impression that children get in life. When children fail to widely contact with real life, they understand the world through toys.
Third, to cause children's associative activities.For example, hospital toys, doll home toys can cause children to the hospital and family association, can promote children to carry out creative role games; some toys of labor tools, can cause children to plant trees, dig the river, building and other simulation labor.Some toys are specially designed to help them with thinking training, such as a variety of chess, a variety of intelligence toys, can improve children's analysis, synthesis, comparison, judgment, reasoning and other abilities, to cultivate their depth of thinking and flexibility, agility.
If the child does not have toys, that is to say, when there is no sufficient external stimulation, the child will sit still, feel that they have nothing to do, have no spiritual sustenance, psychological emptiness, and then gradually dull up.In this case, children will develop some bad behavior habits, such as eating hands, eating nails, pulling hair, tearing the quilt, etc., these habits will be difficult to correct when growing up.In short, toys should be used as an important tool to promote the physical and mental health of infants and young children, and only when used properly can they be used effectively.An important part of improving the use effect of toys is how to choose toys.
