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Educational toys are ideal for encouraging questing minds to start exploring the world around them. As far as types of soft toys go, educational toys tend either to be things like finger puppets and glove puppets, or sets of toys that illustrate a certain thing about the world, like a pack of farm animals or jungle animals. A puppet can actually help to awaken a child's interest in the world around it - the colourful animal or character on the hand or on the finger can be used as a "teacher", pointing things out to the child on a walk or in the nursery.
Classic types of soft toys perform two basic functions in the life of a child. First, they give the child what is probably its first experience of an attachment to something other than its mother and father (or of course its father and father, or its mother and its other mother). This is an extremely important thing for a child to learn. An attachment to a soft toy is a natural and healthy way of starting to learn that there are other things in the world to which one can become attached. In other words, that one is able to make friends.
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