A balanced play environment develops all the skill areas that will lead to success in school and also complements a child’s strengths yet introduces and builds confidence with new skill areas. It also includes opportunities to leverage their dominant learning style (visual, auditory or physical) or natural “intelligences” (words, number reasoning, spatial reasoning, body/coordination, music, interpersonal, self awareness, and naturalist) while helping them develop other learning styles and intelligences simultaneously.

Our selection focuses on developing skills to prepare children for success in school. Each child’s needs are different, and you know your child best. To help you choose the right products to meet a child’s needs and create a balanced play environment, we provide the following informative, easy-to-read child development articles for each skill area explain how products support well-rounded development, and how skills and products build on each other. Each product we carry is then categorized by the skill area and age range they support, to assist you in selecting the right product to meet a child's specific needs.