Dangerous toys for children

The top 5 are undoubtedly headed by the so-called Musical Toys, of which there are a great many now. Children, due to their hearing characteristics, are very fond of squeaky unnatural voices and electronic sounds. But all these talking dolls and dogs, quacking and barking crocodiles (yes, do not be surprised, it happens that a crocodile barks), singing bees and clouds can drive you crazy. In the best case – to bring to a nervous tic.

Here I would also include books with electronic “voice acting”. I am deeply convinced that a book should be read to a child by a mother or grandmother. But this is the ideal. It doesn’t work – let it be artists with well-placed voices and diction, because there are audiobooks for children. But not a robot speaking with a Chinese accent and wrong accents.

Pipes, drums, tambourines, metallophones – this is already a little better, but the sounds extracted from these musical instruments beat on the inflamed brains of parents no weaker than electronic voices. Well, here you only need to negotiate with the child where, when and how much you can blow, whistle, and rattle. For example, on a walk in the park – no restrictions. And at home, if you really, really want, only 5 minutes. Well, if they don’t understand, it really depends on the parents. With us, after three warnings, the pipe was broken on my mother’s knee and sent to the trash can.

What to do. Give the child “sounded” toys without batteries, give the batteries to the parents. They will consider their nerves strong enough, and the child obedient enough – they will insert themselves.

The use of another inherently wonderful toy has had dire consequences.

We gave markers for the bathroom for the New Year to girls from a large family. Mom is an artist, the children study at an art school. And the snow-white walls in their bathroom beckoned to portray something.

The manufacturer promised that the markers will be great fun while swimming, that they are made on a soap base and are easily washed off with water. Everything is so, but not quite …

Either the tiles in the bathroom turned out to be too porous, or there was not enough soap in the base of markers, or the young artists were too wild in their creative impulse. But when their mother began to wash the landscapes off the bathroom walls, the drawings just smudged, leaving behind ugly, dirty stains.

What to do… Look for a joint solution to the problem. Together with my friend, we found it: sanita-gel (penetrates the pores of the material and cleans away the dirt) plus comets (chlorine in its composition whitens the surface). But they could not bring the tiles in the bathroom to their pristine snow-white state.

Agree, the idea is tempting – soap bubbles that do not burst. Who among us in childhood did not ask the question why the age of a soap bubble is so short and can it be extended? Why not? And if you add glue?

The manufacturers solved the problem and released the product to the market. Seeing on sale soap bubbles with extraordinary characteristics, I simply could not help but buy them and please the children. And nephews. And godchildren. And the children of friends … In general, I made a cashier for the store that day.

But the gift turned out to be a trick. The magic soap bubbles didn’t burst, but bounced slightly when they touched the floor or walls. And then after a while they were blown away, leaving behind thin polymer “skins”. About these skins! How much trouble they have caused. Laminate, linoleum, smooth surfaces could still be scraped off. But if soap bubbles fell on clothes, upholstered furniture, carpets, they stuck almost tightly. It is almost impossible to clean them up.

We agreed with the children that we only let them on the street. But even there, the youngest managed to spill liquid on her elegant dress and hopelessly ruined it.

Needless to say, the mothers of children gifted with this toy thanked us a lot. But the children, of course, were delighted.

What to do. Ideally, try these “experimental” gifts for yourself first. But this is not always possible. If it turns out that something is wrong with the present, you should definitely apologize.

Psychologists unanimously say that all these vampires, one-eyed or fanged monsters, dolls in coffins and even “beauties” from the “Monster High” series damage the child’s psyche. In addition, such characters in one way or another carry with them “information support” – plots, behaviors and even speech patterns that are used in cartoons, films, computer games, based on which such toys are created. Even if all these products are not personally in your home, children easily cling to all this information rubbish from their peers.

Another argument from the series “Baba Yaga is against” – all these toys are simply ugly, although this is a matter of taste, of course.

The exception is collectible toys: for example, dinosaurs or mythical monsters from the fairy tales of the peoples of the world. Hobbies must be maintained. Who knows, maybe your son in the future is a famous paleontologist, and your daughter is a world-renowned specialist in folklore? But even if there is no passion for dinosaurs and will subside in a year, the child will clearly know that, despite non-standard hobbies, his mother supports him.

What to do. Do not give monsters if you do not know how the child’s parents will react to them. If such a toy was presented to your child, of course, you should not take it away with a scandal. But you can wait until the novelty passes, the interest fades away, and the toy is lost.

This fun, on the contrary, is strongly recommended for the early development of children – they say, both develops fine motor skills and color perception. However, we had an embarrassment with finger paints – when my daughter grew up a little, she categorically refused to understand that a brush was needed to paint with paints. So I strove to get into a jar of gouache or watercolors with my fingers.

What to do. Seek advice from the parents of the child to whom you are going to give the finger paints. If mom is ready for a “drawing lesson” to put not just a glass of water, but a whole basin, and put up with dirty clothes, curtains, wallpaper (the list can be continued) – then why not buy them? Well, if the parents are not mentally ready for such sacrifices, they will have to look for something else.