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Are Traditional Toys Longer Lasting Than Their Modern Rivals?
Are Traditional Toys Longer Lasting Than Their Modern Rivals?
Traditional toys are still massively important in a child’s development, with wooden toys, play toys and the older generation of toys still a fundamental part of what children should be playing with.
Les Blanquettes,
Bishops Frome,
United Kingdom
(prbd.net)
04/02/2011
Bishops Frome, UK, February 04, 2011 -- In a modern world where toys need more batteries than you could ever imagine and everything has to go through a console and TV, parents continually struggle to balance children having modern toys that every child wants compared to having toys that are more traditional, longer lasting and give the child something different. Traditional toys are still massively important in a child’s development, with wooden toys, play toys and the older generation of toys still a fundamental part of what children should be playing with.
Traditional toys ( http://www.cottontailsbaby.co.uk ) are said to last longer than their modern alternatives, mainly because you find they are often more durable and sturdy, which means that a child can normally play with the toy for hours and not have the parent worrying about them breaking it. If you compare a wooden car made of decent materials to an electronic one with weak plastic, you can quickly see that there is far more chance of the plastic car cracking and then breaking compared to the wooden version.
The older generation of toys were mainly produced in an age where money was tight and children did not have a wealth of choice of products to play with. This meant that these kind of toys ( http://www.cottontailsbaby.co.uk ) tended to last a little longer because manufacturers knew that there was little choice at the time and little money to spend, which meant any toy the child did have, had to last a long time.
One of the main issues with any electrical item, be it a toy or otherwise, is that they will of course tend to break more often than something without electronics inside of it, mainly because whenever you introduce any kind of computer related items into a toy you have more things to worry about. The more complicated the toy, the higher the chance that it could suffer some sort of malfunction at any time and this could therefore decrease the length in terms of the life of the toy.
Although the more traditional toys are often a little more expensive than modern toys, ( http://www.cottontailsbaby.co.uk ) this can be balanced by the fact that they often last much longer and are often not so mass produced, which means your child or the recipient of the toy is getting something original, quite unique and of distinct quality.
It is fair to say that when you look at traditional toys and modern toys, there are places in the market and in the hearts of children for both types of toy, with each offering something different for the child. But when it comes to lasting longer in terms of durability, traditional toys do tend to be stronger and therefore go the distance, whereas modern technology can often make people as unhappy as it can make them happy, especially when it goes wrong.
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Charlotte Evans
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Les Blanquettes, Bishops Frome WR6 5AP
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CottonTails.co.uk ( http://www.cottontailsbaby.co.uk ) is an leading online retailer of traditional children's toys, including Wooden toys and gifts for babies, toddlers and children from Moulin Roty, Maileg & Ostheimer.
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