It is an interesting question.
It is known that in the United States, the national IQ is dropping.
How can you make sure your child does not end up as part of this statistic? Do toy trains help? Parenting in the time that we live in right now is a challenge.
Even though we have all of these time saving products and systems, somehow we still don't have enough time on our hands to take care of what is really important.
Statistics show that children of working parents receive mere minutes of quality time time per day.
The key word is 'quality.
' Both quantity and quality are important, but it is the quality of time spend that will stimulate a child's intellectual growth.
If you spend time with your child building a toy train table and constructing the railways, you will be spending valuable quality time with them.
By letting them construct their own railroads, your child will be learning key lessons in hand-eye coordination, math, and physics, believe it or not.
Think about it.
Your child will need to use geometry to connect the railroads for a continuous path.
Physics play a part on any hills present.
If you are there, you can explain all these things to your child.
Your child will take in this information and it will stimulate this thinking and intellect.
Once your child grows up, model trains with all their intricacies in building their sets might be of interest.
Building a model train set takes a lot of thinking and planning and improvising.
For a young child, building a toy train set provides a good challenge in thinking, planning, and improvising to make things fit and look a certain way.