All children love toys. Not only do they keep them entertained, but they are specially designed to help childhood development. What most parents don’t know is that many toys are manufactured with harsh chemicals – things which are bad for your child’s health.
Why Toy Safety is important?
As a parent, making sure your child is happy as well as healthy is very important. Young toddlers and babies tend to be very curious. Almost everything they touch and see goes into their mouth and no matter how thorough you are – accidents still happen. Here are some of the biggest tips to make sure your child stays safe.
Chemical Free
Kids spend a lot of time playing with toys that are made of all types of materials. Toys often contain paint, glue and other chemicals. Some of these chemicals are harmless, but some are not. Because a child’s health is sensitive to what it’s exposed to in its environment, it’s important to know what to look out for when buying toys, and what types of things to avoid.
To avoid any risks, why not opt for a wooden toy. Wooden toys offer the same amount of fun, whilst ensuring your baby isn’t chewing on anything that could potentially harm them. Wooden toys may be more expensive, but they are guaranteed to last longer than any plastic.
Age Appropriate
Its easy to go for the most colourful toy on the shelf, but don’t be fooled. Every toy is designed to have an appropriate age group sticker somewhere on the packaging. By checking the age that the toy is suitable for, it ensures your child’s age will work well with this toy. It also means that the toy isn’t going to harm your child. By ignoring the age recommendations, you could be risking buying a toy that may have sharp edges or be a heavy weight, this could leave your child with an injury.
The Toy Size
Toy size is one of the most important ways of making sure your child is safe. Avoid toys that are either too small or too big for your child, small toys increase the chances of your child choking. Alternatively, toys that are too large may be too difficult to play with.
Chewing Resistant
Chew resistance is extremely necessary for baby and toddler toys because they have a tendency to chew almost everything! Babies don’t know what they are chewing, and this could become a problem if they tried to swallow it… checking a toy is chew resistant is the best way to guarantee safety for your child.
Loud Toys
Loud toys may always seem more appealing, but the reality is that many are too harsh for babies’ ears. That’s right, the sounds we think make a toy more fun can actually be too loud for our babies’ ears! Avoiding all loud toys is probably the best thing to do, ensuring your baby grows to have perfect hearing!
At the heart of parenting, we all want our children to be happy as well as safe at all times. Taking more precautions when buying toys is an important step all parents should take. At Toys & All, they design and manufacture wooden toys, ensuring no harsh chemicals are involved in the process.
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