Dr. Toy selected the Smarcks 70 Piece Building Set as one of her 2010 Best Picks for new children’s toys. The talking blocks also received the Parents’ Choice Award in fall 2010 from the Parents’ Choice Foundation.
About Dr. Toy
Dr. Toy’s Best Picks Children’s Products Awards Program 2010 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.
Best Picks were selected to “encourage parents and teachers to focus on the value of play as essential to the learning process.”
“Dr. Toy’s Best Picks ” are new products for this year that were carefully chosen from among thousands of products 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.
About Parents’ Choice
Designed to help parents and caregivers of all achievements and backgrounds make informed decisions about which new products are right for their children, the Parents’ Choice Awards is the nation’s oldest nonprofit program created to recognize quality children’s media. The Parents’ Choice Awards program honors the best material for children: books, toys, music and storytelling, magazines, software, videogames, television and websites.
Parents’ Choice Foundation’s panels of educators, scientists, performing artists, librarians, parents and, yes, kids themselves, identify the very best products for children of different ages and backgrounds, and of varied skill and interest levels.
The Parents’ Choice Awards committees look for products that entertain and teach with flair, stimulate imagination and inspire creativity. Judges are interested in how a product helps a child grow: socially, intellectually, emotionally, ethically, and physically.
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