Since the 2nd/kloc-0th century, there have been early education toys that integrate the above various toy forms, such as learning from bears.
Because some toys are unsafe, many countries in the world have formulated toy safety standards. Toys must be inspected, and products that meet the standards must be marked, otherwise they are not allowed to be produced, sold or imported. Most countries adopt the international toy safety standards formulated by the International Toy Industry Council. Generally speaking, children's toys are designed and manufactured for children of a specific age, and their characteristics are related to children's age and intellectual stage. The use of children's toys is based on certain adaptability. In China, the age limit for children is 14 years old. As a children's toy, it has a key factor, which is to attract children's attention. This requires toys with bright colors, rich sounds and simple operation. It is worth noting that because children are in an unstable period of continuous growth and have different hobbies at different ages, there is a general psychology of liking the new and hating the old. Therefore, children's toy stores should classify toys according to their ages, such as 0-3 years old, 3-7 years old, 7- 10,14 years old. As far as its material is concerned, common children's toys include wooden toys, metal toys and cloth toys. As far as its function is concerned, the most popular thing for parents is to develop intelligent toys.
Specifically, children's toys can be divided into the following ten types:
Educational toys: improve children's cognitive ability, analytical ability and imagination, and cultivate children's sense of accomplishment.
Game toys: on the basis of improving children's cognitive ability, cultivate children's hands-on and brain-thinking ability, develop children's thinking, exercise operational skills and hand-eye coordination ability.
Digital abacus words: while training children's jigsaw puzzle ability, we should practice big movements, train children's fine movements, inspire children's accurate understanding of shapes, numbers and quantities, and then exercise muscle flexibility.
Tools: It is mainly to let children know and master the shapes, colors and structures of various tools, and to train their practical operation ability, hand-eye coordination ability and develop their imagination in this process.
Puzzle combination: cultivate children's spatial imagination and fine hands-on operation ability, so as to deepen children's rational understanding of time, animals, vehicles, shapes and colors of houses.
Building blocks: stimulate children's hands-on interest and cultivate children's sense of rational combination and spatial imagination; Clever drag design exercises children's walking ability and encourages children's sense of creative achievement.
Transport toys: By improving children's knowledge and understanding of the structure of trains, cars and various engineering vehicles, they can train their abilities of assembly, dragging and sorting, improve their hands-on awareness and self-care ability, and understand the transformation relationship between objects through splicing.
Procrastination: improve children's cognitive ability. According to different animals, let children know the different characteristics of various animals and exercise their walking ability on a large scale.
Puzzle toy: It is made up of puzzles with various shapes and rich contents. On the basis of children's understanding of the combination, division and reorganization of graphics, they should exercise their independent thinking ability and cultivate their patience and perseverance.
Cartoon dolls: Parents need some entertainment toys to accompany their children when they are busy. Cute cartoon dolls are widely welcomed by children. Babies' favorite gifts are toys. But beautiful toys may be potentially dangerous to your baby. Look back at the report in your mind-either the lead content of the toy surface coating is too high, or there are sharp corners that cause the baby to be injured. This reminds parents of a disturbing fact: when interesting and novel toys are displayed on the shelves of shops, mothers generally spontaneously think that they have passed the strict standard inspection and will not hurt their babies, but this is not the case.
Protecting children is what parents should do. Every year, more than 654.38 million babies have accidents because of toys and need to go to the hospital for treatment. How to protect the baby at home from becoming a member of this number? Don't be nervous, there are many ways to ensure the safety of children. When buying toys again, take the following steps.
1. Change your thinking mode
Parents rely too much on the national toy safety production standards and forget to be vigilant. You can never know the true appearance of a toy just by looking at the brand name or price tag. You need to evaluate the safety and whether you can buy it. Experts suggest that we should first pay attention to small parts, such as plastic rings or small plastic beads that are easily swallowed by babies, or plastic eyes of Liang Jing, a furry teddy bear. Please remember that elastic toys over 25 cm in length may strangle children; When the rope of flying toys such as kites is more than 3 meters long, non-metallic materials should be used.
China's "Children's Toys Safety Standard" stipulates that when the length of the drawstring made by dragging toys is more than 30 cm, there must be no slipknot or fasteners that are easy to form slipknot. For such toys used by children under 3 years old, ropes thinner than 1.5mm cannot be used. When choosing a toy, if you think it is dangerous, you must trust your intuition.
2. Don't be confused by the "import" label.
Mom and dad are generally worried about the problem of domestic non-brand toys, but they ignore a product with exquisite import labels, which may be assembled in the importing country, but there are parts from all over the world. Don't forget that some imported toys have been recalled frequently. Experts point out that if toys contain dangerous magnets, the most troublesome problem lies in their own design defects, not manufacturing methods. According to statistics, in the past 20 years, 60%~70% of recalled toys were due to design errors, while manufacturing problems (such as lead in paint) only accounted for 10%. Toys should be "big names", but the evaluator is yourself, and you can't just rely on the credibility of the brand.
3. Check the risk of suffocation or abrasion.
Look for the toy instructions on the package and check whether the product contains some parts that are harmful to children under 3 years old. If the package can be opened, you'd better check it yourself. Although some toys can pass the manufacturer's safety test, they may still pose a threat. If the product has detachable small parts that can be swallowed by the child's throat without flattening, then this product must not be bought for the child. Of course, it is also possible that the child chewed his mouth flat and swallowed it. When buying toys, you should think of avoiding buying this kind of toys. In addition, some toys have sharp edges or rough texture, and the delicate skin of children can never bear such friction. Therefore, when you see a wooden or metal toy, please touch it carefully before making a decision. When buying things for children, you must not just put beautiful appearance first.
4. Pay more attention to online shopping
The laws related to online shopping are not perfect, and online merchants, especially online private retailers, have limited after-sales service and quality assurance benefits for consumers. Therefore, mothers should pay special attention to the gifts you ordered online, and check the original pictures and packaging pictures of the products before buying.
Many online retailers will ask you to write a blessing to your friends or family when mailing. Before mailing, you need to confirm whether the product is correct or advise your friends to pay attention. Alternatively, you can go online to the website of the Consumers Association to see if the items you bought online are blacklisted. After the party, you should also carefully check whether there are any parts that will cause harm to your baby.
Give up noisy toys
Playing with loud toys for a long time will damage your baby's hearing. If the sound emitted by the toy exceeds 90 decibels, it is really a kind of noise that hurts the body. Before you buy it in a toy store, press the button and listen to the effect. In addition, we should also consider the distance between the child and the toy speaker, whether he holds it in his arms or puts it beside it or in other corners of the room. Trust your own judgment. If you think it's loud, it's probably really not suitable for babies.
Beware of magnets and batteries.
If a child swallows two or more magnets, the suction in the body will cause fatal damage to the intestine. Therefore, for children who like to chew things in their mouths, toys that are easy to loosen magnets are more dangerous.
In addition, attention should be paid to button cell's pronunciation in books, music greeting cards and electronic watches. Button cells swallowed by children will move smoothly in the body and stay in the esophagus, causing tissue damage. If the battery swallowed by the child still has electricity, it will also cause burns to the body because of the current. For the sake of safety, books and other items with batteries should be placed high on the bookshelf so that children can't get them.
7./kloc-Matters needing attention in choosing toys for children under 0/8 months old
Toys are babies' favorite. However, the following points should be noted:
1) and 18 months old babies should carefully choose hairy toys, such as inferior plush toys and cloth toys, which will cause respiratory tract infections or skin allergies.
2)/kloc-Babies under 0/8 months should try to avoid owning their own printed toys. Babies will pick up toys to chew at any time, and it is easy to swallow the pigments printed on toys.
There are many kinds of toys, how to choose them?
1) and 18 months old babies have already known something. You can choose some safe electronic toys such as electric cars, or educational toys such as building blocks and puzzles, which can broaden your baby's horizons.
2)/kloc-Babies under 0/8 months like to bite, touch and crawl around, so try not to play with toys that have not been bitten, charged, dirty or scratched. /kloc-What babies under 0/8 months need most is gutta percha, a kind of gutta percha that will make them want to bite at any time. Babies should be watched while playing with toys.
Make sure toys are suitable for children.
Be farsighted.
Is the baby's constitution suitable for this toy?
How about toys?
Is there a string over 30 cm in length on the toy?
Check the swings and slides in the community.
8. Matters needing attention in production
Toy factories should pay attention to the selection and installation of hardware accessories in the process of producing toys. For example, these hardware accessories, such as compression springs, torsion springs, tension springs, battery springs, screws, stamping parts and so on. , has been selected. We should first consider whether their prominent parts are sharp or try to avoid the surface exposure of these accessories, communicate with downstream hardware factories in the development of hardware accessories, design more perfect hardware accessories, which can be combined with toys more perfectly and avoid the harm to children after sale. So what production principles should we pay attention to to to ensure that some exposed hardware accessories will not cause harm to children? First, when developing toy accessories, we should pay attention to whether exposure will cause potential harm to children's operation. Then, if there are some exposed hardware accessories, we should pay attention to deburring the product or designing an ornament in the exposed hardware accessories to hide the hardware accessories, such as some toys with regular sounds. It is necessary to expose the adjustable ruler. Many toy factories will add a layer of plastic to the exposed hardware of the ruler, which successfully avoids the direct contact between the hardware accessories and the human body.