How parents can balance buying novelty items with ones that earn their keep and offer repeated play – long after the ...

From Barbie dolls to action figures, the range of toys available to kids is expansive. But when a kid picks up a play gun from the toy aisle, parents may pause to question whether or not plastic ...

You'll want to ensure the toy you choose is developmentally appropriate for your little one. If you pick one aimed at a ...

War is not child's play—except when it is. In a new exhibition called War Games, which opened May 25 at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London, curators Ieuan Hopkins and Sarah Wood bring together more ...

Golinkoff and Han often remind parents and caregivers that “play is the work of childhood,” a phrase first coined by ...

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Andrea Carrillo is a writer and editor with over six years of experience covering beauty, travel, wellness, and shopping for national lifestyle publications, including GQ and Reader's Digest. Kelly ...

Is it my imagination, or are some of the toys my grandkids play with really loud? Is this something we should worry about ...

It's time to tackle the idea of an iPad kid in the Toy Story universe. For all that things change, the more they stay the same, and kids have been playing with toys for as long as kids have existed.

Traditional toys could soon be banished as technology takes over to 'infinity and beyond', a leading children's author warned yesterday. Frank Cottrell-Boyce said he was increasingly hearing that ...

The best toys of 2020 perfectly encapsulate this year’s events—from Monopoly House Divided, a state-of-the-nation take on the classic board game, to Playmobil’s Large Hospital play set, which ...