Guide on Toys for Healthy Play

12/07/2004

Guide on Toys for Healthy Play

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli

Guide on Toys for Healthy Play

The 2004-05 TRUCE Toy Action Guide is now available on-line in time for the holiday season. For 10 years, Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment (TRUCE) has been preparing the guide. It is designed for practitioners to distribute to parents to help them promote creative, non-violent play and choose high quality toys and play materials for their children. The Toy Action Guide contains information on how to select toys that promote positive play and reduce the influence of harmful toys on children. There is a list of TRUCE's 2004-2005 recommendations for "Toys for Healthy & Creative Play" as well as "Toys and Toy Trends to Avoid." The Guide again provides suggestions for "Shoe Box Gifts," an alternative gift idea that promotes play around themes with common objects often found around the house. There are also suggestions for how parents and schools can work together to counteract the harmful effects of the commercialization of play.

To download the guide, go to: www.truceteachers.org. Please download and distribute it widely.

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