The Tips of Choosing The Educational Toys for The Toddlers

The educational toys for toddler should get notice more, because the child’s world is a play world, and it will be better if the game is played by a child can also stimulate the child's brain to develop optimally. This aims that the parents are not seize the right of child to play. By the educational games will give the benefit for the child in cases of training the rough and smooth motoric, independence training, communication, and creativity.

The long of time for the toddlers to play ideally is 25% of all the daily activities, or about 4-6 hours. Based on the result of an online survey which is done by Fisher Price toward 690 respondents in Indonesia, as many as 46% of children have fiiled the criteria, 22% have a playing time of 6-8 hours per day, and 20% have the time to play as many as 1-3 hours per day. So it will be very important to give the toys that can give the toddler intelligence stimulation.

From the results of the survey also found that the parents in Indonesia already have the motivation to optimize the brain development of toddler, with buying the cognitive toys that are as much as 79%, 79% physical and 72% emotional toys.

The Requisites of Educational Games for The Toddlers

Vera Itabiliana Hadiwidjojo as a child psychologist gives advice in order to the game can be beneficial as stimulation, there are two principles that must be required. First, the assistance when the children play and the game types are adjusted with the age.

When playing, the toddlers need the parental assistance, in order to create the stimulation for their growth and development. This assistance is in form of teaching how to play the game, either with the way it should or make other variations that more interesting. You can also invite the child to play with the toys of singing and moving. So it is very important, the parents need to schedule of the activities for children to play every day and of course adjusted with your free time and the leisure should always be there for both mother or father.

The educational games for children should also be adjusted to the age of the child, because if the toy age category lower than the age of the child, then the child will more easily get bored because there is no challenge in the game. Whereas if it is too high of the age category, then the child will not be able to enjoy the toys given.

Summary: 

• The good long time to play a child is about 4-6 hours per day, 
• The educational toys for toddlers should be adjusted to the child's age and during they play get the assistance, 
• The exact games and challenge will stimulate the child's brain in order to developed optimally.