Educational Toys Taking Over Our Kids Free Time In Schools
If you’ve been keeping a close enough eye on primary and kindergarten schools over the past 10 years you’ll have noticed that the toys on offer to children have been getting progressively more educational. There is nothing wrong with this in principle as we all want our children to learn to the best of their abilities, but recent reports have shown that the newest educational toys may not be as beneficial to our kids learning as first thought.
A study by the Federal Education Department has found that children are engaging with toys a lot less in school and are finding other ways to spend their free time, often leading to disruptive behavior. Educational experts believe this is likely a result of the increasingly learning-focused nature of school toys which have an emphasis on letters and numbers. Ed Harry of the federal schools board has stated that “children learn about English and math all day in their work hour and don’t want to be doing the same in their break time”. He went on to say that bath toys and toy diggers should be reintroduced for use in the water pits and sand pits that most schools have available to them. Simple dolls houses can keep children entertained for hours and because they are social use toys (can be played with by more than one person) they help develop communication and interaction skills.
The results of the research have been addressed by the government who agree that there should be a good mix of toy types in schools. Their suggested action is to supply schools with a variety of different toy types so that kids can selected which ones they like and get out of them what they can.The parents of school children have also voiced their opinions and whilst many agree that their should be a happy medium in terms of choice of toys, others believe that their kids would get better benefit if they were learning (formal subjects) during their break time also
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