Company Description
Quality Toys and Hobbies is division of Child Development Media, Inc. (CDM), which is currently the world’s largest single source of commercially available videos, books, and curricula on child development and related topics, with over 1500 titles in its catalog. QualityToysandHobbies.com's focus is to provide children with high-quality toys that promote fun and education.
We are expanding our assortment of toys daily, and we strive to offer unique, hard-to-find toys that promote development of children, infants to pre-teens. Our toys are beneficial to children where ever they are served and ideal as gifts.
Company Mission and Vision
With this division of Child Development Media, Margie Wagner's mission is to build a collection toys that bring joy to a child's life while promoting development and education.
In addition, qualitytoysandhobbies.com is directing a percentage of the revenue to establish a program, in Southern California, that treats infants and toddlers with who show early signs of autism. Her vision is to generate sufficient funding to replicate a unique center in Israel that eliminates the signs of autism in very young children and that avoid the onset of full-blown autism. Bringing this model early intervention to Southern California will improve the lives of many families who otherwise can be both emotionally and financially devastated by their child's diagnosis of autism.
About the Founder: Margie Wagner, M.Ed.
 For 35 years, Margie Wagner has worked with children with special needs: emotionally-disturbed children, young children with disabling conditions, socially-disadvantaged children and children with acute, chronic and life-threatening illness. The cornerstone of her work is her commitment to training and supervision. In 1993, she founded Child Development Media. Since 1987, she has produced many Video Theaters for professional conferences, and she is a video editor for professional publications.
In the 21 years prior to her founding of Child Development Media, she directed the Child Life Program at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, where she had the opportunity to train numerous staff members and hundreds of students. Other professional experiences include Educational Therapist at the Dubnoff Center for Child Development and Educational Therapy, Master Teacher at the Demonstration Preschool of the University of Southern California, and Counselor at the Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago.
She has served on state committees and on the Board of the Association for the Care of Children's Health. She is currently a board member of the Infant Development Association of California and of the Ruth Pearce Fund for Therapeutic Companions. She is also a founder and member of the Chase Foundation, which is dedicated to the support of Child Life Art and Play Therapy Programs in children's hospitals everywhere.
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