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Baby's first favourite toy

05/06/2017

Baby's first favourite toy

In order to grow up and relate to others, your child needs a toy to interact with. These objects take on a mental value that helps your child in the transition from a condition of total dependence on his Mother, to a more autonomous phase, where the mother figure is symbolised. In this phase, your child will also realise that Mom is not always there to meet his every need. He will discover that he is a separate and different person from his mother and will start to understand the difference between his inner world and the reality that surrounds him, which is not always exactly what he wants.

Up to the age of three, your toddler will play with almost anything in the home. These objects are the first things he explores, that he cuddles and that comfort him. By exploring a toy with the tongue, lips, and jaw the child finds out about size, shape, surface texture, taste, and weight.

For this reason, choosing a toy is not a random choice, but involves all the senses. Touch, smell and the visual characteristics of the object play a fundamental role in choosing and maintaining the relationship with the object.

Here are some things you may like to take into account to help relationship between baby and his toy.

To develop motor and manual skills:

- Ball, rope, circle, tricycle, bicycle, swing, interlocking games, play dough, clay.

To stimulate creativity:

- Activities with crayons, felt pens, watercolour paints, clay, musical instruments, puppets, building blocks and games.

For affective needs:

- Plush toys, dolls, puppets.

To exercise cognitive functions:

- Classification activities, puzzles, jigsaws, chess, cards, assembly games.

It is important for parents to understand the meaning and symbolic value of these toys in order to respect the love and emotions a child feels for his toys.

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