Case Study: Laugh And Learn Smart Stages

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The toy that I chose is called the Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Chair created by Fisher Price. Fisher Price was founded in 1930 during the Depression era by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Margret Evans Price and Helen Schelle. From the very beginning, the company focused on play value, originality, strong construction, action and great value for your money, since most families didn’t have a lot to spend and most American businesses didn’t survive, so these qualities were felt as important. In 1931, three of the four founders took a selection of their wooden toys to the American International Toy Fair in New York City. From there, Fisher Price became a great success. During the 1960’s, the Little People product line was introduced and became a …show more content…
The chair features three different levels. You can either enter the baby’s age for automatic level changes as the baby advances with age, or you can manually change the levels with the switch if your baby is advancing at a faster pace. The chair comes in two different colors depending on your baby’s personality; it comes in either bright yellow with blue feet or a pink with purple feet. This chair will gradually help your baby learn their first words, colors, shapes, numbers and even help teach them the alphabet and how to count. When you adjust the different levels according to age and development, you are able to scaffold their learning. The Laugh & Learn Chair will prepare the baby for next level education, like preschool, by using simple concepts that they will be learning. This chair can be used to give them a head start before they are in the classroom setting. Your baby will never even know the chair is a learning tool because they will be having so much …show more content…
This is accomplished by exploring different remote channels and playing games like peek-a-boo, which also teaches the baby new gross motor and cognitive skills. One of these skills, potty training, is one of the first things children learn. The motions of sitting down and standing up are crucial to learning how to use the potty and make it easier to learn this. The Laugh & Learn Chair helps the child understand these motions, and then it assists in understanding the beginning stages of learning to use the potty. This is an added benefit to the Laugh & Learn Chair that has gained a lot of positive feedback from parents and early childhood educators.
From a Socio-emotional aspect, each individual baby typically responds well with the level they should be at. With regular use they can advance levels quicker. Most children enjoy the songs that are provided with the Laugh & Learn Chair and can easily interact with what the chair says to do and can understand it easily. The low seat height is also better accessible and liked more by parents. Since children like to have everything of their own, they tend to want to sit in the chair often for a wide variety of other activities that don’t involve using the chair for its functions since it is solely their

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