Play Value - Stay With Children As They Develop

Stay With Children As They Develop

Classic toys such as Mr. Potato Head, the Radio Flyer wagon and Chutes and Ladders or in a general sense, spanning generations, the teddy bear, stay with a child as he or she develops new interests and matures. They "stand the test of time", and evolved can accompany a child into more and more elaborate play when social surroundings, life and a knowledge for example of history create diversified and extended ideas.

Organized toy kingdoms can grow up in the rooms of European children. Named stuffed animals or dolls often occupy lifelong positions of honor, as visualized imaginary friends, in the lifetimes of sociable people with many real friends.

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Famous quotes containing the words stay with, stay, children and/or develop:

    A toddler believes that if you love a person, you stay with that person 100 percent of the time.
    Lawrence Balter (20th century)

    Therefore I stay outside,
    Believing this; and they maul to and fro,
    Believing that; and both are satisfied,
    If no one has misjudged himself. Or lied.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
    Bible: New Testament, Ephesians 6:4.

    Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)