Parental Filter

Every parent is aware that toys are beneficial to a child's growth, as well as happiness. I remember my daughter describing being sad as not having a mommy, a daddy, and toys. I don't believe that one of us here has a kid that doesn't own a single toy, and so I ask this question to all of you parents around....

When is it enough? We never can seem to find a good-enough reason to stop buying these toys, can we? Because usually (in my case) their toys get old very quickly or they get bored with it after only a few days, or that they get destroyed. And aside from all that, I always feel that my children deserve these toys because they are very good and sweet kids, and only ask for things very rarely.

So, when is it enough for you? Or do you intend to continue buying them toys up until they finally grow out of this playful stage?

I get the toys for them when they are well behaved. It is one way of keeping them to be a discipline child. For toys, children are willing to do anything.

Even though they do get bored at the toys after a few days, I discovered that taking out those old toys that are kept for some times, say a month ago, will attract them to play them again.

Toys are good but you know sometime it has bad impression to. Like your child speaks only that what toys speak. You child think toy is her best freind who never lives him or her, so I dont prefer toy to play all the time. Just at night, I tell my daughter to sleep because her toy is also sleeping.

Actually bika, that is a very familiar situation for me, because when my daughter was 3-4 years old, she only considered her toys to be her friends. She always brought "Teddy" and "Claire Bear" along with her wherever she went, she'd talk to them, and she slept with them at night and treated them like real babies / kids.

I, myself, didn't find anything wrong with it because she was still at that age after all, she's supposed to love toys, but my mother felt otherwise and would keep on discouraging my daughter from bringing these two toys everywhere we'd go. She'd have my daughter leave them at home, and basically did not like my daughter to keep on having them tucked under her arm.

She felt the same fears that you somehow do, she did not like to see my daughter getting so attached to toys.

Toys for kids are good but like all toys (kids or adults), they have their time and place.

I would say use the toys to entertain and educate the kids (and sometimes to cheat to some free time for you) but keep in mind that you can not throw toys at your kids and let it end there.

Toys are important and as parents we enjoy giving our children toys, but we need to leave space for their imagination too, Children love playing with things around the house. A large cardboard box can become anything from a house to a racing car, a blanket draped over two chairs makes a good den, they can play make believe with old pots and pans etc.

I remember those blankets and sheets draped over chairs. Suddenly there was a tent in the wilderness under the kitchen table and my daughter loved it.
Probably more than fancy toys come to think of it.

I think we sometimes forget that we need to allow children to develop their imagination and`to learn to be resourceful, they learn through play and that doesn't always require expensive toys.