Q. I don't mean a tool belt or a tool bench, but actual toys that need 'fixed'.
I came across a John Deere tractor that had a screwdriver and another tool stored in the top. The truck would 'break' and ask you to 'fix' something, requiring the child to pretend to 'fix' it.
While the Amazon reviews all said the toy was great, nearly all of them said it broke way too easily. Do you know of,or have any toy that will let my son 'fix it'.
Sorry Maggie, My toddler simply must be smarter than yours.
I came across a John Deere tractor that had a screwdriver and another tool stored in the top. The truck would 'break' and ask you to 'fix' something, requiring the child to pretend to 'fix' it.
While the Amazon reviews all said the toy was great, nearly all of them said it broke way too easily. Do you know of,or have any toy that will let my son 'fix it'.
Sorry Maggie, My toddler simply must be smarter than yours.
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A toddler (defined as age 12-24 months old) doesn't have the cognitive development to understand preforming multiple actions to cause a reaction. Do you mean a two year old or three year old?
I don't have any children myself. I'm a Toddler Teacher educated in the development of children ages 6 weeks to 4 years. A child discovers cause and effect as a toddler. Push a button, the car moves forward. If the car is "off" and they push the button and nothing happens, a toddler typically won't troubleshoot the car by turning it "on" or opening the battery case (if it is accessible). Now, they may go to play with the on/off switch, turn it on, and hit the button again and the car moves forward but they haven't really grasped the concept.
I've also had many parents of two-year-olds tell me their child can count but that is a concept that children don't understand until they are three. Any two-year-old can learn to recite 1-10 but counting is the concept of a number representing an amount. When you have a two-year-old count 8 toys, they will mimic the motion of a finger pointing to each toy and recite the numbers 1-10 (or whatever numbers they know). The numbers they say won't end up matching the corresponding toy number and the child over counts/under counts the amount of toys.
I wish there was a test that easy to prefer for your kiddo and I wish you had given a more precise age. The "my toddler simply must be smarter than yours" statement isn't enough to convince me that your child is smarter than the hundreds of other children I have cared for.
A toddler (defined as age 12-24 months old) doesn't have the cognitive development to understand preforming multiple actions to cause a reaction. Do you mean a two year old or three year old?
I don't have any children myself. I'm a Toddler Teacher educated in the development of children ages 6 weeks to 4 years. A child discovers cause and effect as a toddler. Push a button, the car moves forward. If the car is "off" and they push the button and nothing happens, a toddler typically won't troubleshoot the car by turning it "on" or opening the battery case (if it is accessible). Now, they may go to play with the on/off switch, turn it on, and hit the button again and the car moves forward but they haven't really grasped the concept.
I've also had many parents of two-year-olds tell me their child can count but that is a concept that children don't understand until they are three. Any two-year-old can learn to recite 1-10 but counting is the concept of a number representing an amount. When you have a two-year-old count 8 toys, they will mimic the motion of a finger pointing to each toy and recite the numbers 1-10 (or whatever numbers they know). The numbers they say won't end up matching the corresponding toy number and the child over counts/under counts the amount of toys.
I wish there was a test that easy to prefer for your kiddo and I wish you had given a more precise age. The "my toddler simply must be smarter than yours" statement isn't enough to convince me that your child is smarter than the hundreds of other children I have cared for.
Where should I put toddlers toys?
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My husband, 2 year old daughter and I live in a one bedroom apartment. We have toys in the coat closet, walk in closet, kitchen, kitchen drawers and living room. There is no extra space to convert to a playroom, not even extra space in our living room to make a play corner. The only solution I can think of is to convert our dining area into a playroom. My husband and I work a lot, and have opposite schedules so we rarely eat together at the table. However, I we have a new dining room table I do not want to get rid of. Our dining room is not big enough to double as a dining/playroom either so I don't know what to do!! The main problem is that our dining room is right by the front door so it's one of the first things you can see when you walk in, and I would have to somehow move the table into our living room.
Is it worth sacrificing our only eating area so toys dont take over our entire apartment??
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Since you already have toys in both closests would it be possible to condese your stuff to one and put some sheleves in the other and convert it to toy storage? You could put everything in bins and just pull out one or two at a time.
Or if you really don't use your dinning room can you find some low shelves to fit under the table? She's only 2 she won't mind having a "cave" to store her toys. You could put two shelves back to back under the table to add storage and keep it where it is now.
Since you already have toys in both closests would it be possible to condese your stuff to one and put some sheleves in the other and convert it to toy storage? You could put everything in bins and just pull out one or two at a time.
Or if you really don't use your dinning room can you find some low shelves to fit under the table? She's only 2 she won't mind having a "cave" to store her toys. You could put two shelves back to back under the table to add storage and keep it where it is now.
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