Choosing natural wooden kids toys will help protect your children’s health. When you keep your children away from toxics you may even be saving their lives.
If you have woodworking skills you could make your own toys from reclaimed materials; this is great for your wallet. However, not all of us are talented in this area and will have to shop for store-bought wooden children’s toys.
When you purchase wooden baby rattles and wooden baby toys made from durable materials you will be purchasing kids toy that can be passed down from child to child.
Purchase “good wood”. Choose toys made from sustainably logged wood that is painted with vegetable, water-based, or beeswax finishes. You will be helping our Earth when you avoid toxic materials.
Natural wood toys are biodegradable, for one thing, so, unlike plastics, they won’t be sitting in our landfills for thousands of years. The image with this article is a wood baby rattle by ImagiPLAY and is coated with beeswax.
Incorporate these germ-fighting strategies into your daily routine to fight off colds. These tips may help your baby and the whole family stay healthier.
According to Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, many common winter viruses are airborne, so if your baby takes a breath within, say, 4 to 6 feet of someone who’s sick, he can easily catch the bug himself. Most people stricken by winter viruses are contagious before they develop symptoms. So pulling your baby away from a sniffling, coughing, or sneezing pal doesn’t guarantee that he won’t come down with similar symptoms himself.
Neither will bundling him up: Studies have shown that exposure to cold or damp weather doesn’t increase a child’s likelihood of catching a cold, says Offit.
Wash your baby’s hands frequently, too — especially before eating (once he’s eating solids) and when he comes home from daycare or an outing.
Also be diligent about hand washing for siblings, especially if they’re sick as well. No need to pay extra for fancy antibacterial soaps — any soap will remove germs from the skin’s surface.
Make sure all of your baby’s caregivers are vigilant about hand washing, too. If your baby’s in daycare, ask what the official hand-washing policy is. If it’s less than satisfactory, don’t be shy about requesting a change and reminding caregivers that this protects their health as well.
Another tip is to keep your babies furniture and toys’ including his wooden baby rattles sanitized. Wipe them as often as necessary.
When we were growing up baby toys consisted of a lot of plastic toys and rattles. Nowadays parents are beginning to discover (and babies too), the wonderful world of natural wood teething rattles.
Even though wooden baby toys may be more expensive compared to mass-produced baby toys, it is important to minimize chemical exposure for babies and your children. This is especially important in the first year as babies are putting everything in their mouths.
Because babies can absorb large amounts of toxic chemicals with the toys and baby rattles they put in their mouths parents can easily find alternative materials for there baby rattles online. Look for solid wooden baby rattles made from Beechwood. ImagiPLAY is a manufacturer of all-natural rattles that are hand-crafted and sanded baby smooth and are finished with beeswax which is a natural antiseptic.
Your baby will love the feel of the natural wood and the ease of grasping and teething with the whimsical shapes available for him and he will have the right type of rattle in his mouth.
From the developmental viewpoint a baby’s first experiences are sensory and largely come through feeding. It makes sense that once a baby can reach out and grasp things he wants to find out what they are really like by putting them in his mouth.
It is at this point that earrings, necklaces and eye glasses are discovered and pulled at, and we can no longer hold the baby and have a cup of coffee at the same time. Parents will want to think about what will satisfy their baby’s curiosity as their child begins to give them clear indications that he wants to handle and put various objects into his mouth. You will notice this at ages four to six months.
A seated, immobile baby is entirely at our mercy as to the kind of playthings or environment we offer him. In spite of its different colors or design, a plastic rattle feels, smells and tastes much like any other plastic rattle from a baby’s point of view. Yet all around him is house full of objects just waiting to be discovered.
ImagiBABY are wooden baby rattles made out of managed forest Beechwood and is a material that is a good alternative to plastic. These wooden baby toys are sanded baby smooth and finished with beeswax, a natural antiseptic. Easy to grasp the rattles are geared for ages 5 months and up.