Okay, so I've run into a couple of things that I feel might ought to be clarified...
1. We are not militantly anti-electronic. You have to admit, there are some battery-operated toys and gadgets out there that come in quite handy when it comes to parenting. We are just completely fed up with the endless barrage of unnecessarily obnoxious toys that jump at us from department store shelves, sometimes when we least expect it. We like to think that imaginations should be more freely allowed to make their own unique sounds during playtime.
2. Some of the retailers on our "Where To Find" list may actually carry some 'noisy' toys -- 'noisy' meaning 'with electronic, artificially created, battery-operated innards.' (*Gasp!*) That's okay. Feel free to shop around them.
There you have it.
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Simple toys speak volumes over today's "high-tech" toys where children push a button and are entertained by watching play happen, not actively creating it themselves. A simple cloth or silk can be a baby blanket, a parachute, a costume, a river, a hat...the list is only limited by your imagination. With play materials that are unstructured, the child must "complete" the toy. It is this type of play that is what builds a child's imagination (the cornerstone of childhood), not pushing buttons on toys that are overstimulating, and let's face it, annoying! Imagination leads to the "out-of-the-box" thinking that is so useful in our adult lives. It allows us to be better at solving divergent problems and think beyond the obvious. Thank you Pixie for your work on this blogspot.
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