-------------------- Leashes?! We don't need no stinking leashes!! Posts: 4771 | From: The Berkeley of the East Coast: Montgomery County MD | Registered: Mar 2003
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quote:Originally posted by NeeCD: I just looked at their "Fun in the Sun" link (I was actually thinking they might be recommending some safe toys - how silly of me!).
Evidently you're not supposed to go to playgrounds or amusement parks, stand near a window, or sit in bleachers. Oh, and those soccer goals are dangerous! If you play soccer (which of course you shouldn't, you could sprain your ankle) don't use goals...
Sheesh.
And windows appear to be out too.
Posts: 121 | From: Berkshire, UK | Registered: Dec 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Troodon: Admittedly, those sneakers with the wheels on them do look like a good way to break one's head open.
Indeed. If another kid wearing those rolls into me while I'm shopping I'm going to break his head open.
Don't get me started on those stupid kids wearing Heelys, and their stupid parents who let them wear those stupid Heelys everywhere, including the mall.
I know I sound like an inveterate child-hater, but the last time I was at the mall, I wanted to kick the kid who ran into me while wearing those damn things, mostly because he acted like an asshat, and his parents ignored the whole thing. I really wanted to put a shoe print on the kid's butt.
-------------------- Beware corporate zombies! They will purchase your brain on E-Bay! Posts: 2310 | From: California | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Ms Congeniality: It's called parenting people.
And far be it from anyone to actually advise parents and help them be aware of dangers they might not have thought of.
I've never understood the hostility and insults aimed at consumer safety advocates. Yeah, we're all so supersmart and aware that WE don't need anyone to point out the dangers of a toy marketed to infants but not safe for them to actually have alone. Yea us. I'm supersmart enough to slow down on sharp curves too, but I don't rail against drivers education or cautionary road signs.
Whoa there, Kahuna, you're making sense. It's way more fun to get snotty and superior and act like guidelines on age appropriate toys R Stewpid.
None of these toys have been banned. No one is going door to door collecting misfit toys and sending them off to an island near the North Pole. All this is is a little extra information for people to consider when purchasing toys for young children.
-------------------- If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. - Jean Kerr Posts: 18428 | From: Ontario, Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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quote:Originally posted by Christie: None of these toys have been banned. No one is going door to door collecting misfit toys and sending them off to an island near the North Pole. All this is is a little extra information for people to consider when purchasing toys for young children.
True, but these folks could've done it in a better way. Instead of "ZOMG these toys are potentially unsafe, do not let your kids near them!!!111!!!eleven!11!", they could've just told folks to use discretion when getting toys for their child.
If you want a more balanced approach to toy safety, you can't go wrong with the CPSC's recommendations:
-------------------- "At all events, people who deny the influence of smaller nations should remember that the Croats have the rest of us by the throats." - Norman Davies, Europe: A History
God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts. Posts: 4578 | From: Sunrise, FL | Registered: Apr 2002
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quote:Originally posted by NeeCD: I just looked at their "Fun in the Sun" link (I was actually thinking they might be recommending some safe toys - how silly of me!).
Evidently you're not supposed to go to playgrounds or amusement parks, stand near a window, or sit in bleachers. Oh, and those soccer goals are dangerous! If you play soccer (which of course you shouldn't, you could sprain your ankle) don't use goals...
Sheesh.
Funny personal anecdote on this one:
quote: Drawstrings on children’s clothing have caught on slides and other playground equipment leading to deaths and near-strangulations.
Perhaps children shouldn't wear shoes with laces. When I was about 1st grade age, my mom took me to a park that had one of those really cool rotini slides. Went down the slide and a lace got caught in a joint in the slide, which wound up flinging me off the ride leaving me dangling by a shoelace. After half an hour my mom finally freed my lace from the slide.
I don't think we ever visited that playground again.
Posts: 91 | From: Dallas,TX | Registered: Oct 2005
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