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You Are What You Played With
There are not many people who didn’t have a favorite toy when they were growing up. This is usually the one that you took to bed with you or carried with you wherever you went. Maybe without even knowing it, you probably had a type of toy that you played with most, be it balls or building block or perhaps it was toy cooking apparatus. These choices may have affected you more than you realise, as new research from the London Psychology Institute suggests we are strongly influenced in later life by our childhood toys. Lets take a better look at the main 3 findings from the study.
1. Those children who were encouraged to play with educational toys didn’t become more intelligent, but were more analytical in their approach to problems in later life. The research showed that learning toys developed patience and taught people to break down a problem into its simplest parts in order to overcome tasks
2. Children that favoured playing with toys that looked like humans (such as dolls), tended to have more advanced interaction skills and could communicate better as an adult. Children increase their interaction level with toys the more they appear to be human research has shown, which means they are more likely to talk and share their emotions with dolls than most other toys.
3. Probably the most controversial of the research’s findings was that the adults who accrued the greatest wealth and had most confidence, where those who had access to toys at all times when they were growing up. This means if children played with bath toys, took toys out and about with them and had access to toys at friends houses etc, they became more successful in later life.
Whilst this research is very interesting, it is worth bearing in mind that it is not always easy to tell where the cause and effect lies. What is meant by this is do children become influenced by the toys they play with or do they pick certain toys because of the type of people they already are? The answer is probably a combination of the two, but the report is still very interesting.
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