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Originally Posted by Lexi Revellian
Yes, it's essential for children to be loved and nurtured - but that alone is not enough. I'm sure you agree it's also, for example, a good idea to teach them to read.
While I'm against the floods of plastic tat aimed at children, if you want your child to have good spatial awareness it's a good idea to buy him bricks, shape sorting games and jigsaw puzzles. If you want to nurture his creativity, buy plasticene, paints, crayons and paper, and so forth. And bikes, skateboards and roller blades are fun and will ensure your child is fit and not overweight.
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After many years I have a new child of my own, a girl (3 1/2). Gifts, true gifts, are only Xmas and birthday. Other things just appear. In abundance. She never asls buy me this or that. She has so much at home. A mix of feminine and maschuline, she will choose what to be. Good quality with thought and design behind and also cheap stuff so she does not become a snob. Avoiding carefully certain heavily merchandized objects. Many books that she adores. Two days ago, for the first time she took some of our books from the lower shelf. A picasso, that she looked curiously. An Historical Atlas, that she examined intentely. I gave her a big tome, a knowledge enciclopedya that I bought for her last winter. I told her that it belonged to her and that she could read it any time she wanted but with some of us with her.
We watched and recognized the moon and the stars (she handling it). She went on the other end of the library where we keep our comics collection. She took a big tome of Donald Duck stories.I told her that it also belonged to her and that she could read it whenever she wanted, and before she started to look at it inside, I told her to put away the other one, which she did.
She plays with creative toys, Duplo, wooden boxes doll house, kitchen implements and recently real food. Now she is more interested in running around and jumping on her little red wagon. She screams happiness.