Our son is turning 1 year old and we have not yet decided what to get him for his birthday. We are on a tight budget and we only buy our childen 1 gift each birthday- as we are going to the zoo as well. I like to get toys to stimulate their brains and get them thinking. He has small cars, wooden building blocks, tambourine, drum, shakers. What is a good toy to buy him for his 1st birthdy?|||It's time for a really big, colorfully illustrated storybook!!
Read from it twice a day, make him respect it--no ripping pages or chewing on it.
I think reading to a child is the SINGLE most effective way to increase their intelligence! I read to my 3 sons all the time---and every ONE of them could read better than an average 1st grader before Kindergarten!
Children become readers when they are taught a love of books very early, and if they see parents reading. An avid reader will learn something from every book they read, so reading for pleasure promotes learning!
Bless you all!|||Zoo membership|||The train set, and the Subbuteo. Ok, he couldn't actually use them for a few years, but I got a lot of practice in first.|||Baby Einstein movies are great.|||you should really be trying to be reading to your kids it will probably help them more my parents used to read to me when i was younger and i came to love to read as i am older now|||Books! My daughter loves books. She is 14 months old and I see her sit on the floor and just turn the pages and point to different things. When I sit with her I say the word over and over again then I ask her where that item is and she points to it. They have great memories. Start them young on the books..it stimulates their brains and is an excellent tool for the educational development.
Remember that the books means nothing to them until you sit down and make them interesting. Help them to enjoy them and they will get hours of fun.|||you can buy a kid all the toys in a store and she'll play with the boxes.
My kid plays with ice cream buckets, pot holders, washcloths, and books.
meanwhile she has $400 worth of toys sitting next to her.|||Trust me, toys will be lost or broken. Buy yourself a commemerative item to celebrate making it through the year. Luckily G/D has given the baby all it needs to stimulate the brain. (Eyes to see, nose to smell, fingers to touch.) I suggest buying the baby experiences. Like a membership to a baby gym, Trip to the Childrens museum. Things like that. The zoo is a great idea, but I always found my 1 year olds are not very good with the whole all day out in the elements thing. We both become frusterated.
Heather,
(single mom of 4 girls)|||Your time!!!!!
Read to him often and frequently(redundant??) As he gets older let him see you reading.
Expose him to new sounds, sights, experiences and people.
But it is your time that will make the greatest differences.|||I think it's Fisher Price, but it's the Baby Grand Piano. My daughter and her cousins have one, and they all love it. So do our friends' kids who come over, and they are a little older, 2 and 4. I would highly recommend that. Get one at Walmart if you can find it, they're cheaper than Toys R Us.|||We got our 11 month old a leap pad for xmas. It's great as you can buy books for it. It's interactive with songs, counting, colours, the alphabet, it reads the story to your child and it also doubles as a piano.
You can adjust the settings on it as your baby grows and learns.
They are on sale at target and kmart at the moment and my daughter loves it.|||I am very fond of Fisher Price's Little People. It has been one of the most diverse and well loved of all the toys ever brought into our home. My child (now turning 7) still plays with her Little People village and requested some additions (the Dragons %26amp;/or castle) for Christmas this year.
They hold up to all sorts of abuse, are safe for any age (so they may still be in use when siblings come along), are diverse enough to meet any child's personality, and are easy to keep cleaned up... and now you can add videos, playmats, etc.|||The best thing you can do for you child is put them in a good daycare so they can enter act with other children even if it is only part time. My daughter is 20 months old and her first birthday was back in may. I bought her cloths and a few toys, plus learning toys. Christmas she got books, puzzles, and a few more learning games. My daughter is very independent and very well put together|||I brought my son a toy phone for his birthday he loved it it played music and taught him numbers and still playing with it. It cost around $20.00 other suggestion are a trucks, sandpit toys they are cheap but still have lots of fun with them hope your son enjosy whatever you buy him|||I highly recommend the Intelli-Table from Microsoft/Fisher Price. My son got it for his first Christmas and he just loved it. About 2 years ago it started getting passed on to my cousin's grandbabies and they now fight over it. My son used it for over three years.
I also recommend anything from Leap Frog and Baby Einstein. They're all great toys. I like to think it was because of good genetics that my youngest is so intelligent but I think it was because we always bought learning toys so he found out at a young age that learning is fun.|||The boxes/cartons the toys came in. Also pots and pans.|||It wasn't anything I bought for her. it was a laundry basket. She would turn it upside down and use it as a seat, or a drum. She would tip it on it's side and "roll" it down the hall. She would put it upright and get into it and pretend she was driving. She would put it on top of her head so it covered her and "dance" and sing.|||If you ask me, I'd say Leapfrog. And they can use it right up to 6 yrs old. Can always buy the activity books and my kids learn so many things from Leapfrog.
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