Buying Toys for Children: Reading answers

Buying Toys for Children Buying toys for children can be somewhat confusing and frustrating for parents as well as for gift givers. _____(1)_____ can show surprising preferences in toys; a favourite is not necessarily expensive or unique or "in". Matching _____(2)_____ carefully to a child's age, however, can help this dilemma. Children usually fall into several different "toy-preference" _____(3)_____ groups. Infants under eighteen months go through two stages. Before they can sit up, they _____(4)_____ toys that appeal to the senses, such as colourful mobiles, squeaky rubber toys or big chewable beads. After they _____(5)_____ sit up, babies like "graspable" things like blocks, nesting…