Do Educational Toys Promote Early Childhood Development (Physical Development - Part I)

From the time a child is born, the parents wait with excitement to the day that they witnessed the "milestones" of her child. The joy that the parents for the first time that their child run over creeps, experience, and then starts to walk is probably all they know, shared. These milestones are a testimony to a child's physical development and maturation of the brain.

The physical development of children is in two main areas, divided Gross MotorSkills and fine motor skills. Motor skills are actions that the deliberate and controlled movements of the muscles involved in the body. Involving gross motor skills are large movements of the body, legs, arms, and the whole body, this activity includes crawling, walking, running, jumping, climbing, etc., contain more fine motor skills, and smaller movements involving hands, fingers, wrists, feet, toes and eyes, this activity includes eye-hand coordination, grasping objects, stackingObjects, writing, etc.

When one considers that the following is not intended to be all inclusive, are below an overview of some of the physical development milestones that parents can in their child from infancy to six years starting Advice ...

Newborn: reflex movements such as sucking, limited hand, arm and leg movement
Roll 3 to 12 months: Lifts head when lying on his stomach, takes rattle, sitting without support, rock on hands and knees, make small objects moveObjects from one hand to another, is made up with help, crawls and can go clinging to something or someone
12 months - 2 years: walks, runs, climbs stairs, raises, feeds himself generally with the hands, build with blocks, imitates adults begins with dishes and self scribblings Feed
2 to 3 years: Jumps into force, hop, balance on one foot helps when tightening using spoons and forks properly used toilet, draws stick people, rides tri-cycle begins withScissors
3 to 4 years: running, jumping, hopping on one leg throws and catches balls of different sizes, dress themselves, showing dominance in the hand using
4 to 5 years: Builds with smaller objects, colors inside the lines, riding on a bicycle with two-wheeled cycle with training wheels, bounces, catches and throws balls with more accuracy
5 to 6 years: Ties shoelaces, with a knife, jumping rope

A CBS News report entitled "Baby Toys have lasting effects," shows that aStanford University School of Medicine researchers study suggests, "to help the brain regions that are children, meaning and interpretation of the world are affected dramatically by early childhood experiences in promoting education and toys that young minds and encourage them to can explore the world in a new way to help build their brain for future tasks.

Although both areas of motor development is a continuous progress over time, educational toys can play an important role in the development of visualmotor skills for children from infancy to 6 years. The different shapes, colors and design configurations to promote and require eye-hand coordination, visual tracking, shape and color recognition, depth perception and language development, which all have fun here. But is not a desire of parents for their child in a seemingly stressful complex world? To learn and grow while having fun, which will prepare your child a successful, productive adults?

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