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Toy safety and selection

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Toys can be used to promote children's cognitive, physical, motor, language, social, and emotional development. Safety and developmental appropriateness are of the utmost importance when selecting children's toys. Parents and teachers and other helping professionals need to teach children the safe use of toys to prevent toy-related accidents.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Family and Child Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

    Cosby Steele Rogers

  2. Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, College of Education, The University of Memphis, 38152, Memphis, Tennessee

    Satomi Izumi Taylor & Vivian Gunn Morris

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  1. Satomi Izumi Taylor
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Obtain additional information regarding toy safety by calling the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission at 1(800)638-CPSC.

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Taylor, S.I., Morris, V.G. & Rogers, C.S. Toy safety and selection. Early Childhood Educ J 24, 235–238 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354838

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