"Stop buying a typewriter brand, - strictlysaid her husband Tanya, the mother of a three year old son. - He has them and so the car. And in general ... It is harmful for children when there are a lot of toys! ”The husband looked at Tanya with bewilderment. The words of his wife, he clearly perceived as a momentary invention of a woman who was tired of raking toys from all angles. Maybe it was so. But Tanya is actually right. Scientists from the University of Toledo recently published the results of their research. They collected 36 babies of about the same age and divided them into two groups. One was sent to play in a room where there were 16 toys, and the second had to be entertained with only four.
A photo: GettyImages “We wanted to find out whether the number of toys in babies affects the quality of the game,” explained one of the study’s authors, Dr. Carly Doch. For the next half hour, the researchers carefully watched children's games. And the conclusion was quite curious: children who had fewer toys, approached the process more creatively. For each toy, they came up with a lot of side functions, inventing new rules of the game. And the children, whose toys were in abundance, played with each half as much, and the games themselves were more boring. “The excess of toys of children only distracts,” the scientists concluded. - Due to age, it is quite difficult for kids to concentrate on one thing. And when there are few toys, children learn to focus, concentrate, and more creatively approach the game. ”As a result, analysts advised kindergartens to remove unnecessary toys from groups. And it is better to change them once a week. Then the chances that children grow up more creative are much higher. By the way, scientists estimate that each child in Britain, for example, has an average of 238 toys. But they play with a maximum of 12. Well, one more thing: parents, of course, are intuitively right that children do not value their toys when there are too many of them. They will not learn to take care of their cars and dolls, if at any time they are ready to offer a replacement.
