Games and toys

Yes, our country has arrived very recently but Pokémon Go had been walking through the streets of many other countries for weeks. Now we are beginning to know the consequences of this new fever. The first consequences (positive and negative) of children playing Pokémon Go, because it is clear that there is both for and against this game or this way of playing.

MineCraft is a game that adults don't really like, I don't know if you've ever tried to play, I did and it made me very sleepy… It's about placing and destroying blocks, cubes and cubes and cubes in an infinite world that You can pose in creative mode (creating houses, worlds, fields, farms, ...) or in survival mode (where you have to face a kind of zombies).

We always talk about taking children to cultural centers and museums to let them feel the art and their capacity for surprise and creativity can flow. And it is true, children, if we leave them a little freedom when interpreting what they see and what they feel, they can enjoy a lot touring the rooms of a museum or an art gallery, you just have to try it and insist a little in it and with them.

That for many fathers and mothers the use that their children give to technology is a concern, it is not a novelty nor is it unknown to us. We are concerned, some of us are very concerned and in view of studies that do not stop publishing about it, we have more than enough reasons to be concerned about the effect that technology abuse can have on our children.

I do not know if your children sleep with a doll or with a du-du or with a specific object, something fixed, something that disappears causes Pandora's box to open at home and the abysses become a quiet beach in comparison with the arrival of the bedtime your little one.

Unlike what happened years ago, today's toys compete with consoles, tablets and smartphones when it comes to entertaining our children. And apparently, in that search for attention in a digital age, some toys that have been with us for decades have become more aggressive. This is the case of Lego toys, which according to a study by a team from the University of Canterbury, are increasingly violent.

There are issues that are recurring and that is why they do not stop outraging us deeply or perhaps that is what annoys us so much, because no matter how much time passes and the effort that many parents, mothers and teachers put in, stereotypes continue to reproduce like mushrooms or lice, over and over again.

Tired of the typical children's songs? Yes, sometimes that happens to our children too and it is not strange. We end up getting tired of it sooner or later and the same thing happens to them a little. Today I bring you 15 songs to listen to, dance, laugh and have fun with them, with our children and no, they are not children's songs, not even from afar!

Because if there is something that children like is to paint, cut, paste, create, build, put and recompose. We call it crafts, they call it fun. Normally mothers and fathers, we prepare these types of activities for rainy afternoons, for the moments in which the plans are reduced to the living room of the house or the kitchen table, it depends on the lovers of the risk that we are to the Time to roll up our sleeves.

It is time to go to sleep, you have already had dinner, you are already bathed, with your clean pajamas, it smells like that tender smell of a relaxed and calm baby. Imagine the scene, we take him in his arms, we lull him, we rock him in his room in the middle of the light and we hum a lullaby to sleep ... little by little ... in a low voice ... we begin to sing (each one according to our possibilities ) "... go to sleep now ... if not the coconut will eat you ..." But who is the handsome man who sleeps with such a perspective?

We want to educate our children in equality, far from discrimination and stereotypes, and at this point toys have much to say. We don't have to go around too much to find non-sexist games and toys, it doesn't matter so much the toy as our attitude towards them and how we present it to our children.

Afternoons with family games are more fun, that is an irrefutable truth but do not think that I talk only about games with dad and mom, I talk about games for the whole family and even friends. Today I bring you no less than 15 board games to play with the whole family, in teams, in pairs, as we want and depending on the ones we get together.

There is a long way to go, in politics, in advertising, in society in general ... to make sexism or gender discrimination disappear. And unfortunately those gender distinctions, those stereotypes that are perpetuated, do so starting with our children. We must help our children to be educated in equality so that strange things do not happen like a pink thermometer cost us more expensive than the same in blue, or that there are bags of potatoes for boys and girls ... In the world of toys, the distinction is typical for boys and girls, when in reality there are no different toys for them and them, it is as we want to see and teach them.

One of the things that children like most is to imitate us, and as one of the most magical places in the house is the kitchen, because it is the place where the most delicious meals come out, they enjoy playing cooking, arriving with food of the super, prepare it, serve it and then collect the utensils. For this we are many parents that at some point in the childhood of our children we bought them a kitchenette.

For some time now, the famous toy brand has become more aware of the demands of society and has begun to develop numerous sets of games to promote equality, not only for girls or boys, creating lines of women scientists or engineers, but also for adults, as is the case with this new doll, the housewife dad.

There is no doubt that playing is the best way to learn, and this is not only for children, but is applicable to all stages of life. Today I bring you five incredible projects to learn by playing that will surely come in handy, whether you have young children or if they have grown up and are watching content that is very tedious to learn.

Learning certain things can be complicated and tedious, and in my experience, especially the latest. I remember, when I was little, that one of my favorite subjects was science and yet, one of the things that cost me the most to learn was the table of elements. Years later, when I arrived at the university, a funny version of the periodic table came into my hands that would surely have helped me learn them years ago.

Since Mattel presented its last announcement, there was an air of change for Barbie. In "Imagine the possibilities" (imagine the possibilities) girls appeared aspiring to be more than a fashion icon, and in another commercial ad broke sexist barriers by showing a child playing with a doll.

The umbilical cord is your child's first toy in the womb. Approximately after 18-20 weeks of pregnancy the baby begins to interact with him: he tries to practice grabbing him, he rolls around his body and plays with him. It is part of his intrauterine life, and it is also vitally important because it connects the baby with his mother by supplying nutrients and oxygen through the placenta.

Electronic toys are in fashion and we will not deny them. But we could talk about a misuse of certain items, if children are left alone with them waiting for the device in question to interact sufficiently with our children (apart from entertaining). A study has indicated that electronic toys limit the use of language in children and that they have less vocabulary or will take longer to speak in a certain way.