2023-04-19 14:05:17
EParents, who usually want to do everything right when raising their children, can disagree on a number of decisions. Baby carrier or stroller? Bedtime in the early evening or after 9 p.m.? On the playground: climbing frame or at some point a bag of snacks on the bench? baby monitor? And if so, with a camera and/or heartbeat monitoring? And when the child is older: cell phone? Kids Smartwatch?
Well-to-do people don’t have to argue about the toys. Nobody really has anything against wooden toys, at least not the parents. When they see the many beautiful wooden toy parts that are available today, they can easily forget the amount of wood from the past. Remote-controlled racing car, Baby-Born and Polly Pocket – or just blocks of pale beige, untreated wood? Hm, what was on the wish list back then, in the eighties and nineties?
Many young parents, at least that’s the impression on Instagram, are now voluntarily putting the Grimm’s rainbow on the window sill, the original that has been around since the 1970s. So that today’s dear little ones appreciate the bright colors in front of cream-colored plastered walls as much as they do.
Germany as a location for wooden toys should not be underestimated
Grimm’s, Ostheimer, Haba: Germany as a location for wooden toys should not be underestimated and is still competitive. This is particularly evident because a number of companies have followed suit in recent years. There are the classics from the past, from Germany or France, see Janod, founded in 1970, which have moved with the times and today offer an appetizing wooden cake via the Smallable online shop.
And there are the very young examples who seem to tailor their children’s toys even more specifically to the interior and interests of their parents. The wooden camera in our photo is from Kindsgut in Berlin, founded in 2017, the wooden matryoshkas are from Ferm Living in Copenhagen, founded in 2006, and both parts can be ordered from the littlehipstar online shop.
The wooden lemon by Konges Sløjd, founded in Copenhagen in 2014 and available to order via Smallable, also fits in more with the chic Scandinavian minimalism in the living room than with the chaotic maximalism in the children’s room. And if mum is on the phone all the time, then the offspring has: a wooden landline phone from Liewood (also via littlehipstar). The main thing is that it’s not a wooden smartphone, because some parents wouldn’t agree with that at all.
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