How to Choose Toys That Last Beyond the First Week of Excitement
Every parent knows the feeling. A toy that cost more than was comfortable to spend gets opened with genuine excitement, played with intensely for a few days, and then quietly migrates to the bottom of the toy box where it joins the growing collection of things that were supposed to be brilliant and turned out to be briefly interesting. The child isn’t ungrateful. The toy isn’t necessarily bad. The problem is almost always a mismatch between what the toy offered and what was needed to hold this particular child’s attention beyond the initial novelty. The toy graveyard that accumulates under…
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