How to Choose the Best Party Entertainer for your Kid’s Party

It is your daughter’s 10th birthday party and you want to make it special for her. Food, decorations, water slide rentals from West Palm Beach are some of the elements that you have arranged. What else?
You decide to hire party entertainers. Professional in their approach, they will keep the children entertained throughout. However, looking at the plenty of options, you are confused regarding the best service provider. How do you choose a party entertainment company that is reliable and trustworthy? Here is a list of suggestions from experts.

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Celebrate your Child’s Birthday with a Water Slide

Children's birthday parties are one of those occasions when as parents you want to give complete happiness to your child. Starting from themes to decorations, guests and food, you ensure that your child’s birthday party is by far the best. As parents, organizing a birthday party for your child has become a much simple task today. One of the reasons behind this can be availed of multiple references. If you search on the internet today, you will be no less than amazed at the innumerable birthday party ideas, suggestions and tips given.

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How Toys Educate Your Children

 

There is a gamut of toys available to children these days. Some toys entertain while other teaches children valuable lessons. Children are like sponges as they learn new things through play. This led to the concept of the use of toys as excellent teaching tools. If you are a parent suffering stress and anxiety over which toy is beneficial for your children, then you came to the right place.

Toys as keepers of children’s imagination

Children’s use toys to learn creativity and enrich their imagination. Lego is a perfect toy to use to teach children creativity. Playing with Lego opens up your child’s mind to possibilities limited only by his or her own imagination. Legos are very versatile because it allows children to create what is formed in their minds. This sharpens their life skill to think outside the box and find uncanny solutions to life’s greatest challenges.

Toys teach children how to strategize

Board games are great toys to teach children the finer points of strategy. It keeps their minds alert and focused on the end result. Legos teach the children the valuable life lesson of problem solving and careful planning. Strategy is valuable skill to gain in the playroom as well as in the corporate board room. These strategies learned will prove to be very helpful in solving life’s difficulties amid all the stress and pressure of everyday living.

Toys teach children teamwork

Learning the value of cooperation is a valuable life skill. Toys used on team games will teach teamwork to your children. Children will realize the value of group dynamics to reach a common goal. Teamwork teaches your child how they can become excellent role players. Not only that, teamwork allows children to learn about patience, tolerance and understanding. Add to that the value of responsibility and accountability in a group. Learning the value of teamwork helps children realize the importance of their role in the society as a whole.

Toys teach children about the value of money

Robert Kiyosaki, a renowned financial literacy guru developed a board game which seeks to educate people about money. He called his game Cash Flow. This board game simulates real-life financial situations. The simulation helps your children practice to be thrifty and learn the value of saving and investing their money. Your kids can learn how to make money grow though this board game. By having early lessons about handling money, as well as how to manage it will prove to be very valuable as they grow old to be responsible  money handlers in the near future.

Toys teach children logic

Jigsaw puzzles and other puzzle games teach children logic. Often children are forced to use their own brand of logic in order to figure out things. This will lead to discoveries which can become valuable life lessons when they grow up. Puzzles forces children to use their brains in coming up with logical solutions to certain situations. The life skill obtained by your children will be invaluable in real-life situations in the future. Putting the pieces of these puzzles together will also teach them patience and hard work.  This will also help your child realize that he is also a piece of jigsaw puzzle in this world and that his words and actions must contribute towards the development of the society where he belongs.

Toys teach children responsibility

An active parent is crucial in teaching kids about toy responsibility. Children will learn that their toys will be taken from them if they are not careful. The right to play a toy has an accompanying responsibility to store it properly after play. This teaches children not only responsibility over their toys but the value of having an orderly living as well.

Children will find out that life is a constant struggle of finding solutions to problems. The skills they learn from toys will be invaluable. Children will have enough training to solve problems or to make the right decisions in a board room.

About the Author:

Ryan Rivera used to suffer from anxiety attacks for seven years.  He now dedicates his life in writing articles that will help people in coping with anxiety, stress, panic attacks and depression. You can read more of his writings at Calm Clinic.

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Feeding your Child’s Imagination through Play

Children are known for the crazy things they come out with and all their creative ideas. But what causes them to do these things? The simple answer is: we do! The toys they play with, the people they talk to, and the things they see on television influence their behaviour, ideas and thoughts. 

The imagination is part of what scientists call a child’s ‘cognitive development’. This term covers all aspects of thinking and imagining, processing information, reacting to their environment, and learning and remembering information. A child who has advanced or improved cognitive development will be more intelligent as they will find it easier to learn, and will have a better memory when it comes to retaining the information learned. A particularly imaginative child will also excel in the artistic subjects, such as art, music, English (more specifically creative writing), dance, drama, and design technology (such as textiles or woodwork) when they attend school. 

 I’m not a fan of sitting a child in front of the TV day-in-day-out and massively support the influence of traditional playtime instead. I like to look for toys that encourage a child to think outside the box or educational toys that a child will learn from while playing with them. Here are my favourites to feed a child’s imagination at playtime:

 • Puppets – puppets encourage one of the most important aspects of children’s play: role play. By playing with a puppet, a child has to think up what the puppet might say, what they could be doing, where they might go or what they might like. Imagining these scenarios provides the building blocks for creativity and also helps with language development. 

• Building toys – whether it’s a marble run, Duplo, Lego, or a pack of wooden blocks, they are for building and creating. Often, things like this have instructions so you can build specific items, but there is a lot of room for true inspiration and who knows, it may lead to your child inventing something new! There are lots of different building sets out there for all different tastes and ages so it won’t be hard to find something your little one will love. 

• Pens and paper – this is possibly one of the easiest ways to let a child get imaginative. They can draw from memory, draw something they can see, or just scribble if they want, which can be useful to express intense emotions. It helps them to interpret the things they see in the world around them better, picking out details that are important to them and you can really get an insight into their mind. 

• Dressing up – fancy dress and pretending to be a character is fabulous, especially if you have a few children who can play together. By pretending to be someone or something else, they can imagine the person or animal’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours and act them out. Popular themes are pirates, cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, or even playing schools. 

Why not think of some of your own ideas? Crafts, scavenger hunts, role playing with figurines…the possibilities are endless! 

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This is a post from James Mechan who works with Galt Toys and has a great interest in the methods of aiding a child learning through play. You can find him on Twitter @Mechan135

 

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Safety Tips when Shopping for Kid’s Jewelry

Shopping for kid’s jewelry can be very challenging. After all, kids don’t see the value of wearing jewelry the same way their parents do. This is because jewelry can be very uncomfortable especially when they are playing. Earrings, necklaces and even simple rings could be cumbersome and irritating. When parents shop for kid’s jewelry, style is just part of the consideration. Other factors that are kid specific come into play such as safety and comfort. 

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Throwing a Baby Shower - Ideas

 Being pregnant and having a baby is one of the most joyous occasions in a woman's life. Other than preparing for the birth by buying all the baby's necessities, one of the most memorable parts of the pregnancy is the baby shower. A baby shower is where friends and family of the expectant mother come together to celebrate the impending baby arrival by showering the mother with gifts, hence the name baby shower. Read on to get some decorating, game and gift ideas for your next baby shower. 

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