What are open-ended toys and why does my child need them? It seems anyone and everyone are talking about the importance of open-ended toys these days, myself included. While I am not a child psychologist or a degree-holding child educator, I am a mom. A mildly informed mother who had a growing sense of dissatisfaction with the way I watched my children play. Something just wasn’t settling right with me on the growing need to continuously add to an already overwhelming abundance of toys that my children had. Even with the copious amounts of playthings, my children were always...