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  • Easy Healthy Snacks For Kids
    By Maggie Rahn After a long and active day at school, our children tend to come home hungry, hence the popularity of the afternoon snack. Most store bought or commercial snacks are rich in carbohydrates, sugar, sodium, and fats. Things like packaged cookies, pastries, and other quick fix snacks are low in nutrition, and are generally [...] […]
  • Environmentally Friendly Diaper Bags
    The Lexie Tote from Fleurville® takes functional luxury to a new level. Built out of our PVC-Free™ Green-LAM™, the Lexie has many of the standard features of our best selling MotherShip® and Sling Tote, plus more. This elegant shoulder tote has custom hardware, Green “Leather” trim, a seam sealed, water-proof lining, multiple pockets and comes [. […]
  • Prenatal Vitamins
    Prenatal Vitamins are specially formulated multivitamins that make up for any nutritional deficiencies in the mothers diet during pregnancy. Prenatal vitamins may contain a number of vitamins and minerals, Their Folic acid, iron, and calcium content are the most important part of prenatal vitamins. Folic Acid: The best prenatal vitamins will contain around 8 […]

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Timeless Toys from a Bygone Age

November 19th, 2009 ~ No Comments

Will our children reflect on the toys and computer games that they have today with the same enthusiasm that James May exhibits for Plasticene, Meccano and Scalextric?

The TV series ‘James May’s Toy Stories’ sees the hirsute super geek of Top Gear fame revisiting his childhood toy favourites with a BBC budget and a bunch of screen writers. They’ve concocted a series in which Mr May builds a full-size plastic Spitfire plane, a full size house from Lego bricks, a full size bridge over the Leeds and Liverpool canal built entirely from Meccano and a 3 mile replica of the Brooklands banked racing circuit built entirely from Scalextric.

Mr May clearly likes toys that involve building something. They come from a time when toys were inspiring and didn’t involve a blasting virtual adversaries into oblivion with a range of improbable weaponry.

His TV programs are aired at a time of year when many of us are considering the Christmas gifts requested by our youngsters. For some years now these have been dominated by the latest games consoles and computer games. Last year it was the Wii fit and Guitar Hero. This year they want Santa to bring them DJ Hero.

I’ve been discussing which form of toy is actually the most beneficial for child development? Computer games and modern games consoles or inspiring, creative construction toys like Meccano, Scalextric or Lego.

I belong to the same generation as James May. I grew up with Airfix model kits, footballs and bicycles. I’ve never really understood why computer games have grown to become as popular as they are today. Personally, I would get a lot more enjoyment and satisfaction from building a model railway circuit than I would from pretending to be a disk jockey or pretending to play guitar. I suppose that building a model railway is actually pretending to be a railway engineer. Toot Toot!

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