Some parents buy their children a large number
of toys to play with.
What are the advantages and disadvantages for
the child of having a large number of toys?
The toys and games industry is flourishing these days as the
trend of buying children many toys to play with is increasing. This essay will
discuss the pros and cons of this rising trend.
In today’s competitive world, the number of families in
which both parents work hard to earn a livelihood is on the rise. With this
growing change, parents find it difficult to spend quality time with their
young ones. In order to compensate for their absence, they resort to buying
them more and more toys. The toys keep the children engaged and thus helps
parents to relax after the day’s work or to do other jobs. Moreover, some of
the toys companies claim that their toys
are educative and help in over all development of children. This further
encourages parents to buy such kind of toys.
However, this developing trend can have detrimental effects
on the children and their families. To elaborate, for instance, when children
go to school, they see their friends playing with different toys and then
demand the same from their parents. Not all parents can afford to buy expensive
toys frequently and find it difficult to fulfill their children’s desires. This
results in development of negative feelings like resentment, jealousy and anger
among children. Furthermore, children don’t value the toys they have and
sometimes break or lose the old ones in order to get new toys. Also, some toys
are violence based, and promote bad behavior.
To sum up, although providing children with toys adds
positively to their growth and development, it also has dire consequences.
Hence, I believe, parents should be aware of the type of toys they buy for
their children and also be reasonable in the number of toys they purchase.
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