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Four Toys That Will Develop Your Baby’s Mind

Your baby—the bundle of joy in your life who you want nothing but the best for. From the food you select to the opportunities you give them, there is nothing you wouldn’t do to ensure your baby grows up to be happy and healthy. One of the best ways to ensure your baby continues positively developing is to give them toys that will enrich and stimulate their mind.

If you’ve gone toy shopping before, you’ll know that there are no shortage of options. However, some toys really don’t do much, other than look nice. These toys don’t do much in the way of developing your baby’s mind. That’s why you need to provide your baby with toys that have been specifically designed for educational purposes. So, without further ado, here are 4 toys that will develop your baby’s mind.

1. Tiny Love Musical Baby Mobile Toy

Looking for a fun but educational toy that your baby can play with in their crib? Look no further than the Tiny Love Musical Baby Mobile Toy. It’s a baby mobile toy with no shortage of features to keep your baby entertained as well as their mind ticking. There’s a lot to love with this versatile toy.

Based on the theme “Sweet Island Dreams,” the toy has twenty minutes of classical music and nature sounds for your baby to rock out to… or to soothe them to a restful night’s sleep. The monkey, giraffe, and bird dangle down for your baby to play with, and have a rotating feature too. What’s more, as your baby grows, the toy can adapt to suit their age needs.

2. Baby Einstein 12 Board Book Block Set – Baby Einstein: My First Library

As you are well aware, reading is one of the most important skills to develop early on. Of course, babies need a bit of a helping hand from their parents to develop this lifelong skill. They need to be exposed to books that are age-appropriate and written in a way that enhances their cognitive and creative thinking.

It’s no wonder, then, that the Baby Einstein 12 Board Book Block Set – Baby Einstein: My First Library is rated one of the top rated baby gifts to give in 2019. There are a total of twelve enriching books to share with your baby, each with ten pages. They cover all assortment of fundamental topics, from fruits and vegetable to numbers to colors of the rainbow. Reading these books regularly might just turn your kid into a baby Einstein!

3. Laugh & Learn® Smart Stages™ Home

Fisher-Price has long established itself as a go-to toy brand for educationally-conscious parents. The toys are all designed to enhance your baby’s mind, making pretty much anything from their range a safe pick. We particularly like the Laugh & Learn® Smart Stages™ Home, which has an incredible number of functions. There are, in fact, too many to name, so we’ll just highlight a few.

The Home features 75+ sing-along songs, tunes, and phrases for your baby to learn from as well as colorful lights for them to bop to. That’s not all, there’s a toggle light switch, spinning clock hands, shape sorting, and three light-up computer buttons that are sure to spark their curiosity for years to come.

4. Lamaze Fifi The Firefly

The simplicity of Lamaze Fifi The Firefly makes it a quietly brilliant toy. Despite its small size, there’s a lot going on! Each feature is built with your baby’s development in mind. For example, when your baby plays with the mirror, it helps them learn how to focus, track images and explore the face. Whereas the soft velour body and multiple textures found on the wings helps your baby maintain engagement.

Versatility is another handy trait of this toy. Not only can you clip it on your baby stroller, they can also play with it pretty much anywhere. If you needed any more convincing, consider that this toy has over 200 views with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars!

About the Author

Emma Stenhouse is a freelance writer at Family Living Today. She specializes in writing about pets, outdoor pursuits, and family living. She is also a qualified Science teacher.

Emma is from the UK, and has lived in Costa Rica and New Zealand before moving to a smallholding in Spain with her husband, their two-year-old daughter, and 14 animals. This includes dogs, cats, horses, and poultry. She enjoys trail riding in the mountains near their home, riding her horse Trifle (who was a wedding present!) and taking along her two dogs Ronnie and Blue, who love adventures. Her other dogs, Rosie and Max, can usually be found having a snooze at home.

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MILK STREET BABY! Finishes that beg to be touched.

Distressed Finish

Our finishes have that well worn, gorgeous patina that make Milk Street Baby furniture like no other. Each finish is distressed by hand to accentuate the individual grain found in each wood species we use in our construction. These unique surfaces are then enhanced with multiple coats of our beautiful rich pigments. All finish layers have been tested individually to assure you that nothing gets into your nursery that you don’t want there! Beautiful white tones, warm grays, and rich browns will make your nursery all you’ve dreamed about!.

We use Grade-A solid hardwoods for all furniture construction. Wood is then distressed by hand, with sandblasting techniques, and with wire brushes to give depth and texture before any finishing is applied.

Our finishing is a 20 step process! You can see and feel the difference. All of our products are hand sanded, hand finished, and hand distressed by a team of fantastic, skilled artisans with a great eye for color and distress level. Due to this every piece will be slightly  different in its finish. 

We believe if you like our look, this uniqueness will be an attribute that you value. Our paint is all from the best…AKZO NOBEL. We spend more to give you a finish with depth and tone worth its cost. You can see even in photos that our finish is special. It differentiates us from other crib companies. Not only do we use paints and stains that are all GG certified. We go a step further and test each level of finish for heavy metals and phthalates to be sure that your baby is breathing nothing but healthy air.

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Above and Beyond Safety Standards and low-VOCs

A crib is one of the most important purchases you will make in your lifetime. Why? It’s the only place where you will leave your baby unattended for up to 8 hours at a time. You want that place to be a haven; safe, comfortable, and beautiful. That is why it is our mission to create beautiful nursery furniture that doesn’t sacrifice safety for design.

Safety features

All of our cribs and case goods are tested above and beyond the most rigorous standards. We meet/exceed all of the most current safety standards set by cpsc/astm. We add voluntary measures to exceed U.S. requirements with regard to phythalates and heavy metals.

Our production methods and the materials we use are continually being reviewed and retested in accordance with the ever changing standards for construction and coatings.

We pride ourselves on finishing.

We believe in open communication and transparency with regards to our materials and finishes. We strive to educate new parents about specific details of finishing, test results, and the chemical contents of our coatings, metal parts, and even our packaging. Our pigments and top coats have been developed exclusively for Milk Street by the incredible team of artists and color specialists at AkzoNobel.

All our finishes have minimum phthalates and a low VOC.

Each finish we use is Greenguard Gold Certified. Products that are certified by Greenguard have to meet stringent standard and emission limits for indoor use. You can rest assured that any product with the Greenguard Gold certification will not emit significant chemical compounds into the air. These products are the perfect choice for a nursery!

Does Greenguard test for phthalates?

It does not measure phthalates except in the Children and Schools certification; phthalates are semi volatile, and don’t begin to evaporate until approximately 7 days after exposure to the air. It does not evaluate the manufacture of a product, nor any byproducts created during production or disposal.

We go above and beyond

Milk Street Baby independently tests all layers for the phthalates and heavy metals…we go above and beyond what Greenguard does….honestly. All our products meet the EPA guidelines for emissions.