The Power of The Toys

Have you ever noticed the eye movement of an infant girl or a boy when dangling a Barbie or a toy soldier? There is a preference for life size sex doll-typical toys. Sometime back I visited my grandchildren. Both were around three years of age. I spread before them toys suitable for their age. The grandson grabbed the plastic pistol and the bus. The grand-daughter very delicately picked up the doll and the musical piano.

This tpe sex dolls-stereotype affinity is found in animals too. Young female chimpanzees cradle sticks as if they are dolls. They even keep them by their side in their nest. This suggests that the man-toy relationship is a primitive trait carried forward to this day through the genes.

Toys play a vital role in a child's development. It stimulates creativity. It provides entertainment. It develops mental skill. It improves the physique. It enhances cognitive behavior. Cognition includes learning, reasoning, decision-making and problem solving, understanding language and symbiotic living. Set of wooden blocks is one of the simplest toys but it develops mind of a child.

A wooden construction set may turn a child into a future architect. A child can make houses, cars, spaceships, wind mills and several other models. He may be slow in comprehending. In good time he becomes more proficient. A doll in the hand of a baby girl may look just a toy, but that is the beginning block to make her a homemaker or a doctor in future.

The toy assemblage has become infinitely enormous with the passage of time. The entire fleet of vehicles that run on land, float on water and fly in the air are available in their miniature toy form. If that is not enough, one may find hundreds of models of each of such carriers competing with the latest real-time models.

A child remains unaware when he drifts into his teenage, adulthood and culminates into a senior citizen. His attention shifts into puzzle toys that dare his ingenuity. One still finds the famous Rubik's cube in the hands of a child and an elder alike.The reason for the extended mortality rate seems hidden behind toys.

The market is flooded with remote control toys in different designs and models to suit the mental and physical prowess of different age groups. These are either radio or infrared controlled. Such toys give ideas to the technocrats in producing prototypes for demonstrating the latest technologies.