Learning Toys and the Rotary Telephone

I was looking with great interest at a couple of our baby's toys recently. One raid data recovery a plastic telephone with an animated face and wheels which he can pull around and create "ringing" sounds as he goes. The other is a combined activity board with mirrors, musical buttons, and a telephone with a removable headset.

The interesting observation to me at least is that both of these play phones have rotary style dials! What kind of "learning toy" would teach a child how to use a rotary-dial telephone? buy Viagra online about antiques? Learning about obsolescence? I would guess that our son's experience with rotary phones will conclude once these toys wear out or are passed on to someone else. Of course these products are all created for fun and used in fun but I did find myself musing about some other learning toys which may soon appear obsolete to the technology savvy parent or their 21st Century baby.

A toy car without electric buttons to roll the windows up and down. This also puts a child with a controlling personality in their place - imagine not being able to have power over all of the windows in the car from the driver's seat! Remember also that a toy car with power windows would likely require the additional expense of more of those ever popular "D" batteries, so there is a cost savings to be had here as well.

A toy car that you must lock and unlock the doors by hand with a key. Of course the drawback to this low-tech access to the vehicle means that the plastic doors are susceptible to scratches when baby is entering the vehicle in the dark or just before nap time. This toy car will also be more difficult to find if lost because it would not have the convenience of a horn panic button with which to easily track it down in a crowded parking lot or messy bedroom.

A play fireplace with real logs. Children should not play with gas so gas logs are off limits. Children should not play with electricity so the latest virtual fireplaces are eliminated. A fireplace with real logs also teaches your child patience because the fire needed to burn the logs is a no-no until a much later age.

A play refrigerator without an icemaker. This obviously creates the pretend scenario of a trip to the pretend store to bring home a manufactured frozen bag of play ice. It also could lead to a science project with the goal of experiencing the ancient art of making your own play ice - assuming you can find a good recipe to follow. Some people think that the ice trays that come with refrigerators are actually made for babies to play with (our's does), but this project will clearly dispel that myth and enlighten cheaper car insurance quotes to their actual use.

We benefit from so many conveniences in today's society and our children's learning toys seem to straddle the gap sometimes between fun and reality in displaying these conveniences. But maybe that is where imagination comes in!

Jeffrey King is a freelance writer, father and Mr. Fix-it living in Southern California. He offers common sense advice and observations for new parents at raising-baby.blogspotNew Parent Guide to Raising Baby. He also authors home-family-journal.blogspotHome and Family Journal, prose focusing upon life's relationships and life's lessons.