After he finished counting to 100, child says “Ready or not, here I come” and then he must search for other players. He must be very careful. Once he finds a player hiding, he must run back to home tree and shout his name. He must be vigilant so that he can hear any sound that might indicate position of other players.

You’d never think that hide and seek, one of most common games in childhood, could be so educational, right? Yes, it is a very educational game. And it’s not only one. Pick any game you liked playing when you were a child, and analyze its rules, as I did above. You’ll be amazed.

Hide and Seek is oriented mainly towards developing fair play and physical skills.

Here’s another example of educational child game that helps developing more advanced skills: Monopoly.

I won’t bore you with its rules. This game introduces your child into basics of modern business life. Acquiring high value properties, negotiation, taxes. Yup! This game educates your child to become biggest businessperson on Wall Street. Monopoly has rules that are more complex and it requires greater concentration. Specific jargon and names that mean much to entrepreneurs get your child closer world of business.

Toys are amongst first objects a child gets in contact. Understanding how things work is a direct result of solving problems with toys like "Why this fits there?", "Does that fit here?", "How big is that?". Toys help your child learn to grab, pull, push, synchronize movement of head with that of hand.

Toys are indispensable when playing. Playing with a great variety of educational child toys helps your child develop his imagination, understand that different objects have different properties, and learn how to combine them to create other interesting objects.

Read whole article on choosing educational child toys.

Eugen Lisov is the creator of Child-Toys-Guide.com, a site focused on helping parents worldwide to choose the best toys for their children. If you offer your child a bad toy, it’s the same as if you don’t offer your youngster any toy. Please feel free to browse my site; it will only help you when choosing toys for your child.

Some speak most eloquent words of love. Fewer show it in their lives. But, whatever they speak, actions speak even louder.

Surely, God must prefer to disassociate from situations wherein people misuse words that describe His character. And, wherever He isn't, it isn't love.

It is impossible to love until we (know God and) begin to love others as He loves us, because God is love and it's His Spirit that loves through us (1 John 4:8, 12b-13). Anything less is counterfeit.

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