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Sometimes it amazes me what little common sense there is left in the world. Does anyone actually observe and watch their children or just leave a toy to baby-sit?

As a few others eloquently stated, these toy hangers are designed for a Montessori styled form of development. The very young child (4-8 weeks) is placed underneath a hanging object of visual attractiveness. As their undeveloped eyes learn to focus, they will soon after gain the ability to act on their environment and bat at the hanging object. Once the child can roll over, one would want to remove the hanging toys. The toy hanger can then be used by an older child as a play tent by draping a blanket over the top. We bought a Michael Olaf toy hanger (quite similar to the first one) and we consider it one of the better purchases we made. High-quality wood objects, that are multi-purpose, reduce the number of annoying, plastic, one-trick ponies so often marketed to kids today. My daughter is two, and we've tried to give her opportunities to interact with objects of real materials (not synthetic materials.) The end result being she has a much greater respect for both her belongings and ours.

Just because a particular parenting methodology is foreign to you doesn't provide an opportunity to bash mom and pop entrepeneurs who care deeply about their products and children. I'm a huge fan of Highland Wood and think their products to be beautiful and practical, a rarity in our consumer driven Wal-Mart mass-produced world.