Is anyone else fed up of toys trying to teach your baby its ABC's?

Question

I mean right from birth companies like leapfrog etc are hell bent on producing toys that sing the alphabet and 123 over and over and over again!

Whats the point? If a child does learn to recite its alphabet or numbers it will be pure repitition, no actual concept of the numbers.

It just bugs me!! Playing with toys is learning enough and I prefer the old fashioed good old fun ones!

*rant over*

Answer 1

hear hear!!!
i hate toys which are overly interactive too like tickle me elmos and jumping tiggers! how are children supposed to use their imaginations if toys are are just doing all the work

Answer 2

A lot of a child's learning is repetition, as others here have pointed out. I take your point though, by and large, a child learns when it has the capacity to learn, and no amount of gimmicky toys will get them learning any earlier.

What worries me is the number of parents who feel pressurised into getting these things, and lose sight of the fact that learning should be fun and spontaneous, and that just simply talking and reading to children beats these electronic squawk boxes every time.

Answer 3

Actually, all learning starts with repetition. Most children can recite their ABC's as toddlers, but have no idea that its more than a song full of sounds. Same with looking at numbers, they dont know it is an amount.

My brother could count to 20 at 18 months and his favorite toy was a multiplication table with buttons.

Toys with the alphabet are fun to kids who play with them.. lol, thats why they have them. My son LOVES his baby einstien turtle and blocks that teach colors and words, and he's only 6 weeks.

But then again he grabs at things and pulls them to his mouth, and rolls over front to back already... lol.

Answer 4

They do it for money. They try to persuade parents that a child who learns his ABC's at 18 months will be some sort of Einstein. It's all hogwash. Little ones should play!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

hat's how learning occurs repetition, children enjoy repetition as you will establish your child will probably watch something they like over and over. How ever I think they need to update as in UK in schools the use the phonic alphabet.