Alice Whiren

The Cost of It All

The price of a service or product is the actual amount paid by the consumer and reflects the cost of manufacture, distribution, and marketing, as well as the profit for each business involved. Unlike soap, child care services are usually priced below their real costs. How can providers do this and still serve their consumers?

Tools and machines

Tools and machines are a big part of childrens daily lives. Everywhere they look they can see people using tools and machines to do household chores, to construct buildings, and to travel from place to place. Children, too, use tools when they eat, play, and help Mom and Dad around the house. The understanding of basic tools and simple machines helps children relate to the larger, more complex world of adults.

Comment: Response to “The Rhetoric of Toys”

Play has been defined by motive, by content, and as voluntary activity (Ellis, 1973). In the English language the word ‘play’ is used to encompass the broad range of behaviors of animals that are not obviously essential to survival, A host of other words have been used to describe the various activities humans use as play (Huizinga, 1949).