Toys play and child development explores these and other questions parental attitudes and reactions toward war toys are described as are the childrens views themselves the book examines how. Here are some tips for creating a less stereotyped environment and for expanding your childs potential for cognitive development encourage your child to use a range of toys gender specific toys offer different advantages so its important that they use a range of toys to get a well rounded experience and development communicate. Be it social cognitive emotional language or psychological development in your child the toys that your child plays with are crucial to their enactment in the child your childrens toys are therefore not just items for having fun the kids learn from playing with the toys too at such a young age children are just sponges absorbing every bit . Toys play and child development explores these and other questions parental attitudes and reactions toward war toys are described as are the childrens views themselves the book examines how toys and play contribute to the development of language imagination and intellectual achievement and how they can effectively be used in child . These views of the effects of toys generally take the position that the toys themselves elicit the play and language that are observed in the language of ecological psychologists like barker and wright 1955 and gump 1989 the environment of which toys are part coerces behaviors from individuals children from this perspective have minimal influence on the environment