Babies love keys, mobile phones and remote controls, that’s a fact. It’s so easy to hand them one of these objects when they start crying in the least convenient places: when you are in a changing room trying on a nice dress that you absolutely need for that evening, when you are queueing at the post office or when you are finally having a cappuccino with your girlfriends! So you hand them your keys and the baby stays quiet, and you forget all about it.  You remember it only once you get home and cannot find the keys in your messy handbag or when you decide to make a phone call. If you are lucky you find it at the bottom of the pushchair, behind your baby and covered in crumbs!

There are, of course, toys that replicate these objects, but every kid from a very young age can tell the difference between the real thing and a fake!

So to avoid loosing my house keys I decided to give my son (and now my daughter) their own set of keys. Instead of using old ones I went to the locksmith and bought a few coloured keys, a name tag and a carabiner. There you go, it was even an instructive toy for when my son started learning colours.
Needless to say, we never lost those keys!

-Michela