PSA for Parents: MASSIVE Fisher-Price Recall !

[cbelt3]

ABC News has the News.... What will Baby play with NOW ?

"About 7 million Fisher Price Trikes and Tough Trikes toddler tricycles
About 950,000 Healthy Care, Easy Clean and Close to Me High Chairs
About 100,000 Fisher-Price Little People Wheelies Stand 'n Play Rampway
About 2.8 million Baby Playzone Crawl & Cruise Playground, Baby Playzone Crawl & Slide Arcade, Baby Gymnastics Play Wall, Ocean Wonders Kick & Crawl Aquarium (C3068 and H8094), 1-2-3 Tetherball, Bat & Score Goal. "
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Yowza.

[C(-)ris]

Oh please. People need to start supervising their kids more and not having a hissy fit every time they get hurt. I watched the video, I wouldn't worry about ANY of the stuff they pointed out. There is no lead paint, nothing hazardous, no SHARP points, etc. There is no real danger here.

"The toy giant has recalled toys -- including tricycles and play places -- citing potential dangers from falling onto certain protruding parts and choking hazards from small parts. "

OMFG, a kid might fall off a tricycle and hit his arm on a pedal?!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!! RECALL!!!!!! ...idiots.

Getting hurt is part of growing up. I can' wait till these kids that are that sheltered and babied get to the real world.

[DRR]

As a parent... I tend to agree. The only thing they featured that I agreed needed to be recalled was the plastic valve. If it comes off too easily it is a choking hazard, especially since it's something that's naturally put to the mouth.

Getting hurt is part of growing up. I can' wait till these kids that are that sheltered and babied get to the real world.

It's been happening for a while now if you ask me. Currently, 40% of kids in their 20s move back in with their parents sometime in their 20's. It's the result of a lifetime of coddling and dependency, the delay of getting to the final step of adulthood, which is independence.

[OWC Jamie]

Except for the choking hazard recall some of those seemed a bit whiny and over the top.

Good thing FP didn't make the white oak trees along my driveway - some little kid would have gotten bonked in the head and then choked on an acorn for sure ....
(heck, even the dog is smart enough to walk carefully under the trees right now )

[vicrock]

It is a miracle that any of us oldsters survived childhood. Lead paint, no bicycle helmets, riding in the back of our Dad's pickup truck.

[$tevie]

Well, face it, the ones who didn't survive aren't here to complain about it so it creates the illusion that everything was hunky-dory.

Lead paint is really dangerous, as is riding a bike without a helmet and riding the back of a pickup truck. None of those are the equivalent of the namby-pamby recalls listed above.

[M A V I C]

I just let my kid play with kitchen utensils, firewood, tools... I've never seen any recall on those for child safety. That means they're safe, right?

[OWC Jamie]

If they are fisher price kitchen utensils, firewood and tools

[Lew Zealand]

M A V I C wrote:
I just let my kid play with kitchen utensils, firewood, tools... I've never seen any recall on those for child safety. That means they're safe, right?

And yes, my gut feeling about most of those complaints are whiny parents. Looking at the products, they seem to be reasonably well engineered not to have ends resembling OJ's knife collection.

[M A V I C]

billb wrote:
If they are fisher price kitchen utensils, firewood and tools

No, they're not made by FP so it's all good.

I'm still surprised he played with a whole stack of firewood and didn't get a splinter. His favorite toy is a basting brush. He likes baby wipes too, the other day he wiped down the coffee table and did a good job at it. He's not scared of much. He was at the zoo and a tiger was growling, so he growled back each time the tiger growled.