Melting Snow

Toys and Imagination

Monday, December 18, 2017

Christmas catalog
its pages overflowing
with expensive toys.

The prompt for DAY 1462-
“Having fewer toys can lead a young child to focus and engage in more creative, imaginative play,”{/i} says a study in child development. What are your thoughts on the subject? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/singletons/201712/new-study-underscores-why....

Based on my childhood memories, I am sure this is true. When I was growing up, my family was consider working class, this meant that my parents and my grandparents (in this case my grandfather) did menial labor. Before my parents divorced my father and maternal worked at the Blackwell Zinc Smelter. (A good corporate citizen that employed most of the town, while polluting the entire town.) After my parents divorce, my mother went to work as a waiters. There wasn't enough money to purchase a lot of toys while feeding four children.

When I played with my toys, even the paper dolls, I sued my imagination to invent scenarios for the interaction of the baby dolls and stuffed toys I had. In addition, I created stories for my paper dolls to interact with each other. I am sure, that if I had more toys I wouldn't have used my imagination the way I did.