08/09/2017
Feeling very satisfied and proud after reading this article from newswise!!😊 As we initiated a great cause
Newswise — A new study, co-authored by Julie Ozanne, marketing professor in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, finds that toy libraries offer multiple benefits for children, their parents, their community, and society in general.
Parents in the study believed that borrowing toys helps their children develop a different relationship to goods. Children learn that they can be just as creative in playing with communal, used toys as toys they own, Ozanne said — that, as one mother put it, “toys can be just whatever a child is prepared to make of them.”
Toy libraries also educate children on the nature of citizenship. “Borrowing teaches children to share collective goods, take their turn, be considerate of the next user, and be good stewards by taking care of the toys.” Children “are regularly asked to think of other people as they borrow, use, and return toys,” she said. One mother explained to her daughter: “another family might need this.”
https://newswise.com/articles/study-reveals-social-financial-other-benefits-of-toy-libraries
