What are the benefits of educational toys? The first is training of motor skills when a child grabbed a toy, grabbing, holding with all fingers, and so forth. Meanwhile, hard motor stimulation obtained when children move their toys, throwing, lifting, and so forth. Secondly, explore the ability of the child, including the ability to concentrate and problem solving. While developing the puzzle, children are required to focus on the picture or shape that is in front of him without concentration, the result will not be satisfactory. The third, introducing the concept of cause and effect. For example, by inserting small objects into large objects that the child will understand that smaller objects can be contained within a larger object. Meanwhile, larger objects can not enter into smaller objects. It is the understanding of the concept of cause and effect is very basic.

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Children are a gift from God to a parent, you surely agree, aren’t you? The presence of children in the family will give happiness and a driving force to achieve a better quality of life for the entire family. For making children to be wanted as a good boy, smart boy who has a high empathy, the parents should start educating children from the earliest age. Educating children do not need to be done in a way those especially hard radicals such as from top to bottom but do bottom-up approach. This means that parents need to know what the child wants, what the interest of children and what are its advantages and disadvantages for the child. Good parents are parents who are always make observations in detail about the child’s development from day to day. With genuine concern and full of patience and compassion, the child will feel that the approach taken is not a compulsion but a natural and reasonable.

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