Games and toys

Educational toys are a great option for children to learn by playing. There are toys for all ages, to play accompanied or alone. These types of toys usually have the function of stimulating their development, creativity, curiosity, reasoning, promoting self-esteem, enhancing memory or language ... We select the 23 best educational toys to give away this Christmas and get it right.

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Christmas is the perfect time to spend as a family and share our time. A good way to have a fun time is to play a good family game together. In addition, playing as a family has benefits for everyone and from the smallest to the largest they can participate in these moments.

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In principle, no toy is sexist; Children can play with all kinds of toys. The key is how we show them to the little ones, in the way they play, use them and how we (and our environment) refer to them or indicate their use. We select non-sexist gifts to give away this Christmas and surprise the little ones in the house.

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The game is a fundamental right in childhood, and as important as the food itself. But do children play enough, how do they play, who do they play with and what spaces do they use to play? The answer to all these questions is found in a study on children's play conducted by the Civic Cultural Research Group and Educational Policies of the Complutense University, and also promoted by IKEA, the Ashoka and UNICEF Foundation.

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Toys designed for all children and ages: from collectibles that will allow you to expand the game with new scenarios, to interactive pets that children will have to take care of, through toys that will test their intellect and skills. The next Christmas toys star try to anticipate the new needs of a 'select public of minors' that changes fashion very quickly.

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Grandparents are very special beings in a child's life. As a granddaughter that I was and now as a mother that I am, I know and continue to live the strong mark they leave in childhood, living it when I was a child and witnessing it now that my mother is my daughter's grandmother. The love of grandparents is a different one from that of parents, born not only of the heart, but of experience.

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One of the favorite activities of children of almost any age is to make modeling clay. I have checked with my children: with a block of plasticine they can spend the entire afternoon, imagining, playing and creating all kinds of things. But plasticine is much more than just a game of entertainment, and today we will explain the many benefits it has for children.

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I have to admit it. My son is also a fan of the fashion video game, which already has 125 million players in the world, and I don't know how to manage the relationship between the child and Fortnite well. Therefore, after reading in the press this week two important incidents with dependence on the game, I have decided to investigate to understand how it works, why it hooks both children and adolescents, and how to control it so that it does not become a problem with the back to school.

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Playing is a source of happiness and an essential element for the development of our children. Today is International Game Day and, instead of celebrating it, we have to denounce that we are loading the children's playtime with so much extracurriculum and so much screen. Children increasingly play less and each time they stop playing before, as reported by the Children's Game Observatory.

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