From: New York Magazine
We Asked a Child Psychologist to Review the 17 ‘Toy of the Year’ Winners
A couple of weeks ago the Toy Association presented the winners of the Toy of the Year Awards, the Oscars of the toy industry, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. And this year the audience of industry insiders experienced a moment not far off from last year’s La La Land–Moonlight Oscars fiasco: The top prize, Toy of the Year, ended up a tie. Fingerlings and L.O.L. Surprise shared the win.
For anyone that interacts with children, those winners aren’t much of a shock: Collectibles are in and these were by far some of the most popular, but we wondered, are collectibles actually good toys for children to play with? Do they encourage learning and collaboration? To see how these top winners and the 17 other best toys placed in the eyes of a child psychologist, we reached out to Roberta Golinkoff, co-author of Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children (and who helped us find the best toys for 1-year-olds, 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds, and 6-year-olds).
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