Parents are overwhelmed with messaging and claims about how the latest “educational” toy or app is going to make their child smarter or more prepared for school. At the same time, accelerating scientific advances have demonstrated the critical importance of early brain and child development across the lifespan.
The new AAP clinical report Selecting Appropriate Toys for Young Children in the Digital Era supports pediatricians as they counsel parents, focusing on what we know about toys and dispelling pervasive misinformation. The report complements recent reports from the Academy related to play, media, school readiness, toxic stress, literacy promotion, injury prevention, toxicology and poverty.
The report from the Council on Early Childhood is available at http://pediatrics.aappublicati...11/29/peds.2018-3348 and will be published in the January issue of Pediatrics.
[For more on this story by Alan L. Mendelsohn, M.D., FAAP and Aleeya Healey, M.D., go to http://www.aappublications.org...018/12/03/toys120318]
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