Parents, Know the Good and the Ugly in Electronics and Your Child

Parents today, in their quest to give their kids the best of everything may not think about how electronic devices affect their child's hearing. Many people today, including an alarming number of young people, experienced noticeable hearing loss.

You see, when people listen with headphones-or more commonly today, earbuds, the sound is close to the eardrum. Take that fact into account and add that we live in a noisy environment and people tend to turn up the volume on their listening device to cover the extraneous sounds--to block them out. They wind up with very high listening volumes playing next to their eardrums.

That is one reason sound canceling headphones are a good and healthy choice. Their price tag is often in the $200-$300 range. Why would parents purchase the good MP3 player and then not spend the extra $200-$300 on the headphones that may protect their child's hearing? Isn't your child's hearing priceless?

On the subject of electronics-how much is a good thing and how much is dangerous? What kind of emissions do today's cell phones release-the ubiquitous cell phone that even young children carry? Muscle test someone holding a cell phone-not even turned on-and you will get weakness. Something to think about...PLEASE!

Can you protect your child from that energy drain or rearrangement of your cellular structure? There are devices out there that seem to help. Magnetic insoles, Claris Q links, purple plate jewelry, to name a few. Search online  for more information.

Electronics lead people to spend more time in front of computers. You can counter unhealthy energy emissions simply by placing Epsom salts in a porous container that holds about one cup. Place it by the computer set-up. Change the salt every week.

There is another consideration-eyesight. More and more people are complaining of eyestrain and something a bit more frightening-losing clear vision after staring at a computer screen for many hours. In fact, a common complaint is that there appears to be a gray film over one or both eyes so things are not easily seen. That effect is temporary-in the beginning.

I suggest seeing a developmental optometrist who can fit your child with special computer eyeglasses. I also urge you to teach your child healthy viewing habits such as looking away from the screen and focusing on an object that is at least 12 feet away every 3 minutes or so. And getting up and walking around about every 30 minutes.

Of course those practices are wise for vision even when reading a book. You want to keep those eye muscles balanced and working as they were intended to work. After all, human eyes were created for distance viewing-as in outdoors-not close viewing all day long as in indoors.

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What Is The Best Age To Introduce A Child To Electronic Educational Toys?

When searching for a new toy for your child, you may experience a bit of sensory overload when walking through the toy department. There are all kinds of colors screaming at you with huge numbers and letters to accompany them. However, there are more than just colors and numbers getting your attention. There are also lights, sounds, and talking toys. If the kids are with you, they are really excited and decide it is time to turn on every single toy that makes noise so that they can hear them chiming, ringing, singing, and beeping all at the same time. Obviously the kids know how to operate these toys, which means they have been introduced to them at one time or another. So what is the right time to introduce a child to electronic educational toys?

We see them everywhere for all ages. We see them for babies, toddlers, and school age kids. For babies, these toys will have very colorful buttons on them that may make animal sounds and say what the animal is or play music for them. For toddlers, the toys will say the name of an animal when the little one pushes the button or will even start teaching numbers and letters. For school age kids, they can improve their spelling and math skills in order to do better in school. The possibilities are endless, but that still brings up the debate of when a child is too young for electronic education toys. Or are they too young?

The consensus seems to be that children who are of school age should be the ones introduced to electronic educational toys. The reason for this is because children of this age are more likely to understand the different functions of the toy instead of being constantly confused as to what all it can do. For children younger than that, it is believed that non-electronic toys require more imagination. Electronic toys do teach numbers, shapes, and the alphabet, but non-electronic toys encourage creative thinking.

Also, although electronic educational toys are interactive, the interaction of non-electronic toys ties in with the concept of creative thinking. Non-electronic toys also encourage children to interact with each other, whereas electronic educational toys are primarily made for individual play. Non-electronic toys also promote physical activity.

But the good news is that by the age of 5, a child has developed many of these skills and can be introduced to electronic educational toys to help them in their studies. However, it is still beneficial to incorporate non-electronic toys into a child's life to allow them to continue using their imagination. Although the child may have an electronic educational toy, it is still beneficial to use old fashioned flash cards, alphabet blocks, refrigerator magnets, and other such toys to promote imagination and learning. One such way to promote imagination is through the use of building blocks that allow children to build things.

Yes, the electronic educational toy market is huge. There are actual consoles and so many games and educational programs that it can make a parent's head spin when walking through the toy department. Even after leaving the store, the toys that come home continue to make a parent's head spin with all of the beeping, music, and other various sounds that appeal to children. However, despite the constant noise these toys make when the kids are playing with them, when a parent hears the toy say, "Well done," "correct," or "good job," a parent can't help but have a smile on their face because they know they have a little genius on their hands.

Mastermind Toys offers a collection of children's educational games and educational toys and software that we have tested and proven to entertain and stimulate their mind. Toys like Leap Frog that captivate children on an emotional and intellectual level, encouraging interaction and enlightenment at every turn.

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