Introduction:The Laugh and Learn™ Educational Basketball is a developmental toy designed by Fisher-Price. Essentially the toy is a basketball hoop and matching stand that will adapt as your baby grows and is recommended by the website for babies aged six to thirty-six months. Additionally, the basketball hoop features the numbers one through five, as well as automated hands and a smiling face as one of twelve possible songs plays. The basketball toy is made of hard plastic and includes all the basic rainbow colors (red, orange, yellow, green, purple and blue). The toy also comes with two smaller basketballs (which aren't as rigid as their waists). smaller counterparts) that the child can insert into the circle and collect on the base. Largely, the toy plays educational songs, allows the child to put the ball in the basket and interact with the hands, numbers and the basketball hoop backboard. Physical/Motor Development: An important milestone for a child, in the age group of six years. from months to thirty-six months, it is a child sitting alone. According to Laura Berk, in her textbook “Child Development,” based on research conducted by Bayley (1969, 1993, 2005), children are typically able to sit unaided between the ages of five and nine months (Berk, 2009 ). Sitting can have a profound effect on your child because it changes their perspective. A child who can sit still no longer relies exclusively on the stimuli in front of him, but can now interact with objects at different eye levels. It is also an important achievement because it denotes a certain acquisition of skills in a complex way, whereby a sitting child requires the coupling of multiple skills to achieve...... middle of the paper ......rs to be illuminated perhaps while the child marked so that he could begin to understand a causality between the numbers and their meanings. Works CitedBerk, L. (2009). Child Development (Pennsylvania State University Custom Edition ed.). New York: Custom Publishing. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [NIDCD]. (n.d.). National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [NIDCD]. Retrieved June 17, 2011, from http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/Paul, P. (n.d.). Getting Sharp: Do you want a smarter child? - TIME. Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Videos, Tech Reviews - TIME.com. Retrieved June 17, 2011, from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1147180-4,00.htmlSpidell, K. (Poducer), and Thalenberg, E. (Writer/Director) . (2004) The Baby Human: thinking [moving images]. Canada: Ellis Entertainment