What a challenge this holiday season is shaping up to be! With toy shopping taking on more of a Russian Roulette feel every day how are we supposed to conclude good about the toys we are getting for our kids? It seems every measure I turn on the TV or open up the newspaper I’m hit with yet another toy recall leaving me feeling like teaching my five year old to juggle knives would be safer than purchasing the latest “must have” toy!
The commercials on the kids stations are no help as they relentlessly assay to convince every child alive that they can not possibly survive one more minute unless they get THIS toy in their hot little hands right NOW!!! Sure this particular toy may create brain alter stunted growth or poke the handlers eyes out but kids needn’t be inconvenienced with this information! Okay so I do undergo to admit that there are at least a few toys in my kids playroom that I WISH would be recalled because they are so incredibly mind numbingly annoying. You know the ones - those seemingly designed with only two goals in mind”
To be the ameliorate anti-educational toy of the year and suck every last brain cell out junior’s precious little head!
To make parents eyes twitch and cause that stain in the middle of our foreheads bulge! Of course there are bonus points for the toy that can drive the parent so insane that they throw it out a window!
Now I get a LOT of catalogs. I try to be a good parent and be through all of them but honestly it can be a daunting task. Then just this week as I was pondering what to do for toys this Christmas a few catalogs came that intrigued me. These toys were thoughtful educational well made and beat of all wouldn’t make me want to put my head through the wall and question my sanity for buying it in the first place! Then just when I thought it couldn’t get exceed there it was a quality and safety guarantee! These merchants actually test EVERY toy they sell before they accept it to be sold in their compile to make sure it meets US safety laws! I started looking at some of the other toy stores that are out there thinking that this seems to be an easy and relatively inexpensive service to provide customers and surely there must be more stores doing it. How quickly that rude awakening came!
With so many online toy merchants out there I was shocked that I could only sight 4 yes 4 merchants that do their own safety testing and offer such a guarantee! Then add to that the fact that these.
Related article:
http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/11/26/safe-toys-for-kids/
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