Motor skills are developed in children through repeatedly engaging in physical activities that require using more then one sense and movement at a time. This can only be achieved with physical movement. This helps children gain control over their movements, helps them to learn anticipatory results, postural control, and how one action affects another action. Utilizing pedal cars and pedal toys as part of your child's play and exercise will help your toddler build great motor skills.

Learning motor skills requires using both mental and physical action. Riding a pedal car also requires both mental and physical action. Mentally your child is developing skills in drive and persistence. Thy learn that turning the steering wheel one way will make them go in that direction but only by pedaling at the same time also developing coordination skills. They also learn that when they get stuck they have to come up with a new plan of action to reverse the situation. This is great for developing a healthy attention span as well as problem solving skills. When your child plays on his or her pedal car, they develop their sense of curiosity and the desire to master their new skill. Pedal cars and pedal toys are great food for your toddler's brain.

Physically a toddler has to move in order to make the pedal car move resulting in many great benefits for your child such as:

• Great for the toddler's cardiovascular system
• Moderate to vigorous physical exercise
• Muscle strengthening
• Coordination
• Flexibility
• Endurance
• Strengthen joints
• Motor control and skills

It is important that toddlers get enough play and exercises to continue to develop their motor skills. Pedal cars are a great tool to give your child an activity they can truly enjoy while developing great motor skills. They will help your toddler gain useful skills such a better attention span, problem solving, persistence, achievement, coordination, and an understanding of cause and effect. These are all great things to help your child prepare for moving on into a school setting as well.

Toddlers and preschoolers are continuously developing their motor skills as they grow and they love to show off what they have mastered. When your child masters his or her skill in riding a pedal toy, which they will do and love every minute of, you can be proud in knowing that not only have they achieved their desired goal but also that you have helped them to gain many other valuable skills that will go with them through out their life. Invest in your child's health and give them a pedal toy!