About Baby Language

Everyone has a toy that they favoured when they were younger. Most often this is the one you couldn’t leave the house without and had pride of place on your bed. You probably had a favorite type of toy as well, maybe a dolls house, toy cars or maybe just a ball and a cup. Well, new research by the London Institute of Psychology has revealed that the toys we play with when we are younger have a large influence on our personalities when we get older. Lets take a better look at the main 3 findings from the study.

1. Those children who were encouraged to play with educational toys didn’t become more intelligent, but were more analytical in their approach to problems in later life. The research showed that learning toys promoted patience and taught people to break down a problem into its simplest parts in order to overcome tasks

2. Children that favoured playing with toys that looked like humans (such as dolls), tended to have more advanced interaction skills and could communicate better as an adult. It is thought that by having a face that children could talk to whenever they wanted encouraged them to vocalise their thoughts and share their problems with their toys.

3. Probably the most interesting finding from the research was that children who always had access to toys wherever they were, not only had more confidence in later life but had better earnings. This means if children played with bath toys, took toys out and about with them and had access to toys at friends houses etc, they became more successful in later life.

An important point to note with this research however is that it is not clear which way round the influencing factors occurred. What is meant by this is do children become influenced by the toys they play with or do they pick certain toys because of the type of people they already are? In reality its probably somewhere in the middle, but nevertheless the research is still quite revealing.

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