Some of the most enjoyable “toys” you likely already have - the boxes, kitchen bowls, water, packing material, standard everyday home items that kids tend to be drawn to and love. However if you want to invest or gift others, here is a curated list of tried and true gifts that you can use to take some of that Googling off your plate. All are Thriving Littles approved to not only be fun but also stimulating and engaging for your littles ones’ pleasure and development.

New or old mamas to be, where do we start?? With all of the toys out there, how do we pick.

Especially in early childhood, it is the lessons learned through experience, doing, hands-on exploration, trying and failing and trying again, the internal desire to go for something and discover it without any of us directing them along the way - this is where the magic happens.

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How to? Make the opportunities available, create safe spaces, drop expectations, toss the perfection, and consider ourselves observers and guides versus directors or teachers along the way.

My favorite products for your YES SPACE?? There are countless options and no “right” choices, yet here is what makes the cut in my pediatric occupational therapy book!