

While passionate about women's birthing choices and informed consent, she is also slightly obsessed with city living, genealogy and cooking. She cut the only career cord she'd ever known and spontaneously changed gears, and she hasn't looked back since, contributing to several online publications, such as BabyGaga, Hot Moms Club, and the Organic Daily Post. But her true love-the world of mothers and babies-was lying in wait. This is a list of toys that-even if they didn’t go over $100-hurt our wallet when even a dollar gets spent on something that never brings joy to our children because it was never played with.ĭanielle Lasher is a writer, mother, and women's health advocate living in Western Maryland-just outside of Washington DC-with her fiance, their four kids and two dogs.Īfter earning her bachelor's degree in Psychology at Penn State, Danielle made good use of her writing talent and went on to work as a copywriter, providing marketing content on healthcare and drug research to facilities around the globe. At other times, they may seem surprised when the gift is opened but it never actually leaves the box.Īlthough this doesn’t seem like such a big deal, it is-especially when the toys we are buying are breaking the bank pretty quickly. Throughout the lifespan of our littles, buying them gifts is a gamble: will they like it or not? There are going to be times when we hit the nail on the head with our presents and our kids play with them until they physically cannot anymore. Most of the time, we can get away with telling them to put it on a list for Santa, but there are times in which they are relentless.įor parents, we often have to rely on birthday and Christmas lists because aside from these, we have no clue what our kids will play with and what they won’t. Kids control the music by inserting and tapping the pegs to subtract or add instrumentation, then they can experiment with the tempo, musical style, and sound effects. From this age on, they begin to want things every time we go to the store. The Fisher-Price Think & Learn Rocktopus is a fun way to learn math and music, with pegs that correspond to 15 different instruments: steel drum, piano, trumpet, and so on.


When kids age past one or two, they start to develop an understanding of what toys are.
