Growing children are naturally inquisitive and curious. As such, they will always explore the environment. And so it is important to consider some pointers in choosing toys for the kids. This is important especially in purchasing waiting room toys for your clinic, school or just inside your child\’s room.

Guidelines were set and monitored by the United States Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) in assuring quality and safe toys for the children. Generally, one should take note of the following in buying toys:

1. Safety – First and foremost concern of every reasonable adult out to purchase toys for children. Choking hazards like small balls less than 45 mm is not advisable and is actually banned for children below 3 years old.

2. Age of children – The toys that you buy should be appropriate for the age and development level of the children concerned. The waiting room toys should be segregated according to the age of the kids that will use them. The room should be equally divided where children can play freely on their own. Consideration of their development and the type of play growing children engage into should also be noted.

For instance, a toddler usually engage in parallel play, meaning a child can only play side by side with another child and not with another child. Sharing of toys will pose as a problem later on.

Electrically operated or battery operated toys can only be handled by kids that are old enough to know that batteries are not for the mouth. Choking and poisoning can pose as an emergency health hazard if these toys are allowed to mix with the much younger kids\’ toys.

Mechanical toys or those toys that come apart should also be separated from the infants\’ toys. It is vital that you know that whatever a child puts at the anterior of the mouth will be spit while whatever is laid at the child\’s posterior tongue will be swallowed.

Balloons, no matter how attractive they are are never good for younger children. When these balloons are taken into the mouth, disease as well as accident from choking can also happen.

3. Product Safety – you may opt to have a play crib for the infants. If you do this, make sure that the crib does not have parts that can strangle a highly inquisitive baby. A play pen should not be decorated with strings of colorful toys to stimulate a child\’s sense of sight if safety is in question.

Brittle plastic toys should never be a part of your shopping list. It is normal for children to throw toys when frustrated. When these toys break, all the more that these kids will take interest and explore the pieces ending in accidents of choking and cuts.

4. Label – Toys that passed quality assurance systems are usually labelled. You may sometime be struck by how beautiful or exciting a new toy can be that you forget to read the labels and age recommendations at the back of the toy packaging. These labels were not printed to serve no purpose.

Author Bio: Melody N. Andes enjoys writing for Sensoryedge.com which sells classroom rugs and play tents as well as a host of additional products.

Category: Parenting
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