Do you think buying toys for kids is a waste of money?

well, i think too many toys are for a child because many have so many toys they dont know what to play with. my daughter is 12 and we have bought her toys throughout the years and when she gets bored, she will go back and play with her bratz and legos. i think toys are fine but the amount of them should be limited.

hi there corry^^;;
hhhmmm...I do think it's a waste of money when it is excessive. 1-3 is enough. I don't have kids yet but i have a sister who is 19years younger than me. I was excited to buy toys for her but as she grows up, i can see that those toys only lasts for few days. let's say a doll will one by one loses her parts of the body especially the arms and the legs and sooner will like an old man with no hair lol
Now, my sister is not interested to any toys but with books...though the books too will later be out of pages...sigh!
I guess parents should not give to much toys to their children but instead good education and discipline and instead of toys, parents should play with their children and take them to parks and enjoy together.

I bought educational toys for my son - occasionally!
During Christmas, I will get him Scrabble, the following
year will be Monopoly, then Uno, Master Mind, Rush Hours
which will keep their mind active and alert...need some
thinking skills

Other toys that he had like Transformers, Soft beanie toys
like 'Chicken Little', Ice Age characters etc...he won it
himself either in coloring contest organised by the local
television or by the local bookshop like MPH & Borders.

For my friend's children birthday, I will get some educational
reference book, shirts, cap, adventure book, or those very young
children...Barbie Dolls, jigsaw puzzle, Lego set etc.

Hi thee,

I am both yes and no. Yes because now we live in a nuclear family where the family members are miserably less and if both parents are job holders the children surely need toys and other things that they can pass time and derive pleasure too. Mark it that now a days children are being violently deprived of the parental care and love and caresses. This lacking has given birth to unruly teens. and on top of this if they are not supplied with what they wish to time pass at home it would have a Ladenian psychology developed.

In my 'no' segment I would say if you are living in a joint family and there are a good many sous around the children this is not a must that all their demands be fulfilled. This too would ruin them. you might be a millionaire but you should let the child feel the want. This would prove as an investment in future.

I try to buy things they need or use. I have children also and do the same for them. There are certain toys that they especially want that I will get but can tell you first hand most kids have more toys than they will ever need. I go with what they really need first, then something that will last a while, then something they really want. If they are interested in something educational that is always a priority for me. Most people never want to plan for the future for kids but a friend of mine actually has invested money every year for my oldest daughter for both christmas and her birthday. If more parents/family members would give one less $25 toy, twice a year, over 18years invested adds up a lot.

I love to buy toys for my nieces and nephews. I think buying toys will only be bad if it is already too much and not worth the money. As we know there are a lot of toys in which kids can learn but there are also some which can cause harm to them. I guess we just have to be more careful in choosing what kind of toy to be given to these children. We all once became a child and we know the feeling of having a toy.

I don't think I would call buying toys for kids is a waste of money. I think parents should have a system to teach a kids like praise and punish; no kids don't like toys and cute stuff, when they do good, they derserve to be treated praise and toys, when they do something bad, of course no toys..

Toys mean hapinness for kids. i can understand that. but too many toys i think is impractical. Me as a mother of three, i try to explain to my children the value of money. I tell them that they don't need too many toys. if they already have a toy car they don't need another toy car. i bought barbie doll for my girl and i don't need to buy her another of the same kind. unlike others who display their collection of toys. i mean life is tough and so hard now. we need to prioritize and we need to determine what is needed and wanted.

Do I always buy toys for my children or my nieces, no I don't. For my nieces I will buy them two toys each year. One for their birthday and one for Christmas. For my own children I will buy them things more often, but not nearly as often as I used to. My children were very spoiled when they were younger and when we moved earlier this year we realized that they had too many toys to even ever find the time to play with. So, my husband and I decided that we wouldn't buy them toys anymore without any reason. We've decided instead to start rewarding them for their good behavior with commissions. Meaning, when they do their chores or in the example of my daughter, get 100 percent on a spelling test, we write it down on a commission sheet. At the end of the month we pay out their commission and the children are free to do whatever they want with their money. They can save it up to buy something that they want or they can even use it for the ice cream truck.
Since we've quit buying as many toys for the children, it seems to me that they are more content and rarely just ask for something.

As long as there's an occasion, I think it's okay to buy a few toys for the kids. But if it's out of whims and caprices it'll be a waste of money. Kids should not be spoiled by always giving them what they want. Parents should discipline them.