{"id":509,"date":"2011-10-07T12:54:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/10\/07\/dr-toys-best-pics-press-release-for-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-10-10T12:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T18:42:02","slug":"dr-toys-best-pics-press-release-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/dr-toys-best-pics-press-release-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Toy’s Best Pics Press Release for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Dr. Toy’s Best Picks Children\u2019s Products 2011” awards announced today is now available to parents, teachers and others in the online magazine, Dr. Toy’s Guide, at http:\/\/www.drtoy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Toy\u2019s Best Picks Children’s Products\u201d Awards Program 2011 was developed by noted play and child development authority, Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D. (a.k.a. Dr. Toy) as a service to consumers who desire to purchase safe, affordable, educationally oriented, stimulating new toys and products for children.<\/p>\n

“As a childhood specialist for over 40 years,” says Dr. Toy, Director of the Institute for Childhood Resources, founded in San Francisco in 1975, “I have seen the continuous, essential need for more year-round resources for consumers to identify and choose the most appropriate, safe and engaging learning and developmental products for all children.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Toy reports that in the years the innovative on-line magazine, Dr.Toy\u2019s Guide has been available \u201cthousands of visitors daily from around the world have easily accessed information.\u201d The site was the first on-line resource to evaluate toys and children\u2019s products.<\/p>\n

The report, \u201cDr. Toy\u2019s 100 Best Picks Children\u2019s Products for 2011\u201d, is being released according to Dr. Toy to \u201cencourage parents and teachers to focus on the value of play as essential to the learning process.\u201d<\/p>\n

She adds, \u201cSmart play products selected from many excellent companies across the U.S.A., Canada and other countries provide children with exciting new developmentally appropriate tools to help them do better in school, and also provide more constructive activities after school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Auerbach believes \u201cparents and grandparents need help to gain a head start locating new, diversified products that children will enjoy while increasing skills, enhance instruction, and expand imagination.\u201d The products balanced among large and small companies, range from low to high tech for \u201chours of active, creative, educational, and stimulating fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren learn best through play,\u201d says Dr. Auerbach, \u201cand these smart new toys and products encourage children to maximize their potentials.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a good time to \u2018take stock\u2019 and do an inventory of what your child is playing with, what is not used and what they need next in their development.\u201d adds Dr. Toy.\u201d Dr. Toy\u2019s Guide offers excellent ideas for choosing new products for use in learning, after school play and the holidays ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Toy’s Best Picks \u201d were carefully chosen as worthy of attention from among thousands that she has reviewed at toy fairs, catalogs, and through many other sources, and by using extensive criteria she has developed over many years. Among the criteria used are: safety, age-appropriateness, design, durability, lasting play value, cultural and ethnic diversity, good transition from home to school, educational value, learning skills, creativity, improvement in the understanding of the community and the world, good value for price, and, naturally, fun.<\/p>\n

Complete information about these smart toys and products are included in the full report www.drtoy.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Dr. Toy’s Best Picks Children\u2019s Products 2011” awards announced today is now available to parents, teachers and others in the online magazine, Dr. Toy’s Guide, at http:\/\/www.drtoy.com. \u201cDr. Toy\u2019s Best Picks Children’s Products\u201d Awards Program 2011 was developed by noted play and child development authority, Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D. (a.k.a. Dr. Toy) as a service to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-8d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}