Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) obviously understood the benefits of toys and children being encouraged to play when he stated, “Give me the first six years of my life, and you can keep the rest.”

 

Navigating around an Online Toy Store can be challenging. It’s hard to know where to start. To make sure that you don’t succumb to the most alluring gimmicks the toy industry has to offer and end up with a vast selection of the wrong types of toys for your baby or child, consider the following:

 

Einenberg, Murkoff & Hathaway, 2002 p214 in their chapter, What it’s Important To Know: Playthings For Baby and Child suggests the following group of questions.

You can find out more information to help you answer these questions here.  Or use our categories below to help direct your search through our site.