Why do children break toys?

"Shame on you! Only yesterday you bought a new toy, and you already broke! " such disapproval from their parents often have to listen to many children. The kids often don't feel expected of shame, and parents do not understand what is happening with their children. Why, failing to get the desired toy, the child wants to break her?


As explained by child psychologists, the case is often not the spoilt child, and not that he "does not know how to appreciate things."ro





The reasons why children break toys


1. Curiosity: the child at an early age focused on knowledge of the mechanisms that control the world. The same applies to toys, and so often kids break or disassemble the toy into small pieces, it is to understand "what's on the inside" how it's made. This applies particularly to toy with hidden mechanisms: radio controlled helicopters, speaking and moving dolls, and so on.




2. The lack of parental attention: modern parents are often very busy with work and have no time to devote time to their children, "occupies them expensive gifts. But even the most interesting and colourful toys does not replace the child communicate with parents. And, destroying toys, toddler provides at least some attention from adult relatives. After all, children are very quick to understand what kind of behavior will attract to him the mother, father, grandparents, even if this behavior is considered in adults "bad".




3. The game itself: the child in nature, playing action games, identifies himself with the characters. So, there is nothing surprising in the fact that he wants to "kill" the evil wolf, a dragon, a witch, and so on. And "kill" the toy, can, accordingly, only by destroying it. Moreover, here the kid is an example of TV and computer games.




4. Need to vent aggression: the same way as an adult, feeling resentment and anger, looking for, where would the "to do" negative emotions comes and the child. And if the parents often yell at their children, it is because of these overwhelming aggression, child, and mimicking adults and seeing no other way out, yells at his toys, breaks and splits them.




At the age of six or seven years, it is difficult to teach a child relates to toys carefully, however, episodes of breakage and destruction of toys can be minimized, first, not giving the baby the reason for such behavior, and secondly, giving the child such toys that he will love and care for them. Concepts of care and love the baby already quite capable to start to learn four years.




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MedIsrael Info

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