Toy Boxes for Kids and Adults

Toy boxes can come in any style and design. These boxes promote good personal habits such as a sense of tidiness. Organization means that everything has its place -- or, to put it another way, there's a time for everything under the sun. There is a time to play, and a time for work; a time to make a mess, and then one for cleaning up!

That is the wisdom of toy boxes: they teach us to compartmentalize our lives. They make a great way to instruct children in right and wrong, even -- that there is a time and place for everything -- which instruction is necessary given their innocence. Of course, this is one of the most endearing traits of children, their wide-eyed innocence!

Hence the old proverb, out of the mouths of babes come the truth. For children are naturally free of affect and pretenses - and that happens to be why their rooms can be so messy! And so it is that toy boxes can be of use to a parent, especially those models which are colorful or otherwise attractive to a kid's innate sense of fun and curiosity. That's because the young tend to benefit more from a hands-on approach, one that's physical and concrete! When abstract concepts can be paired with concrete actions performed by the student, learning (and retention) is much improved, of adults as well as children.

Such boxes also help with motor skills, particularly the more complicated, if that's the right word, models available on the market today, with separate compartments for, theoretically, different kinds of toys. One could teach the child that though all toys go into the box, certain toys belong in one corner or drawer or level while another goes elsewhere. These are really life skills which should stay with the child all the more due to the casual non-intrusive (that is, non-school-like) manner of their introduction!

With power comes responsibility, however, and it is important to also teach kids from a young age to, as another famous saying goes, think outside the box. For it will be hard to unlearn what has been learned, especially when acquired at such a young age, so it is better that along with the lessons a little balance is introduced right alongside -- right at the outset -- so that the attitude does not develop, that everything in the world is an object subject to easy categorization!

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