Forget hi-tech toys —children prefer the park

PARENTS who lavish their toddlers with hi-tech toys to make them brainy could be wasting their time — youngsters would rather play in the local park.

Boffins at Scotland’s Stirling University also found educational technology toys were no better than traditional methods at teaching pre-school children their ABCs and numbers.

And parents who wanted their toddlers to learn about technology would do as well to let them play with old mobile phones and home computers, the academics’ study said.