Have you ever noticed the movement of the eyes of a girl or a boy when hanging a Barbie or a toy soldier? There is a preference for typical sex toys. Some time ago I visited my grandchildren. They were both around three years old. I spread out before them age-appropriate toys. The grandson grabbed the plastic gun and the bus. The granddaughter very delicately picked up the doll and the musical piano.
This affinity with sexual stereotypes is also found in animals. Young female chimpanzees cradle sticks like dolls. They even keep them by their side in their nest. This suggests that the human-toy relationship is a primitive trait passed down through genes to this day.
Toys play a vital role in the development of a child. Stimulates creativity. Provide entertainment. Develop mental ability. Improve physics. Improves cognitive behavior. Cognition includes learning, reasoning, decision making and problem solving, language comprehension, and symbiotic life. Wooden block game is one of the simplest toys but it develops a child’s mind.
A wooden construction set can turn a child into a future architect. A child can make houses, cars, spaceships, windmills and various other models. It can be slow in understanding. Over time he becomes more skilled. A doll in a girl’s hand may seem like just a toy, but that’s the starting block for making her a future housewife or doctor.
The toy set has become infinitely huge with the passage of time. The entire fleet of vehicles that drive on land, float on water, and fly through the air are available in miniature toy form. If that’s not enough, one can find hundreds of models from each of these operators competing with the latest models in real time.
A child remains unconscious as it moves into adolescence, adulthood, and culminates in a senior citizen. His attention shifts to puzzle toys that challenge his wits. One still finds the famous Rubik’s cube in the hands of a child and an old man alike.
The market is flooded with remote control toys in different designs and models to suit the mental and physical prowess of different age groups. These are controlled by radio or infrared. Such toys give ideas to technocrats in the production of prototypes to demonstrate the latest technologies.