Baby Food Facts

You can probably remember your favorite toy when you were a child. This is usually the one that you took to bed with you or carried with you wherever you went. Maybe without even knowing it, you probably had a type of toy that you played with most, be it balls or building block or perhaps it was toy cooking apparatus. These choices may have affected you more than you realise, as new research from the London Psychology Institute suggests we are strongly influenced in later life by our childhood toys. Below we examine some of the more interesting points the research highlighted.

1. Those children who were encouraged to play with educational toys didn’t become more intelligent, but were more analytical in their approach to problems in later life. The research showed that learning toys promoted patience and taught people to break down a problem into its simplest parts in order to overcome tasks

2. Children that favoured playing with toys that looked like humans (such as dolls), tended to have more advanced interaction skills and could communicate better as an adult. I has been suggested that any object that vaguely replicates a human encourages children to communicate with it and share any musings that they have with it.

3. Probably the most interesting finding from the research was that children who always had access to toys wherever they were, not only had more confidence in later life but had better earnings. This means if children played with bath toys, took toys out and about with them and had access to toys at friends houses etc, they became more successful in later life.

There is of course the argument of unknown cause and effect which could undermine this research potentially. What this means for example is does the child who plays with the doll become more interactive, or did they pick the doll because they favoured interaction in the first place? In reality its probably somewhere in the middle, but nevertheless the research is still quite revealing.

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