Give your child experiences, not just toys!

Research has shown that too many toys in a child cause exactly the opposite effect to what we want: the child is easy more unhappy! Child development researcher Claire Lerner found that children with too many toys they actually play less. Too many toys force children to play superficially and run from toy to toy, which is not quality play. A child can play intensively with only one or a small number of toys, because he has to to include imagination, creativity in the game. In most cases, children are happier playing alone, socializing, involving adults in the game - in short, being together like a family. Professor of psychology from Cornel University Thomas Gilovich has conducted many studies for decades and found that happiness comes from experiences, not material possessions.

What can we learn from this? That it is not necessary to provide the child with all the toys he wants. Spending time with children is much more valuable. In a study at the University of Oxford, where they studied 3,000 children between the ages of 3 and 5, they found that the child's school success depends more on his home environment and the involvement of parents in the child's life than on the possession of toys and electronic devices.

Those children who had fewer toys and no electronic devices and parents who spent a lot of time with them were more successful in school, as well as in social and emotional development. This shows that it is parental attention that matters most in children's development, not toys or screens.

Children will get a lot more out of life if you spend time with them, talk to them, take them to nature, anything, just to be together, like buying them their most expensive toy.

So, dear parents, don't bother with toys and focus on creating memories together, because no matter how versatile a toy is, it will never be able to replace personal contact – VILLAGE.