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Is the ban coming soon?
Nearly 90,000 more drop-side cribs have been recalled in the United States. This time the recall involves the Bassettbaby crib sold in popular baby retailers through August of this year.
The crib, like many other drop side cribs that have already been recalled pose the risk of strangulation, or suffocation to infants. The drop-side portion of the crib can malfunction causing dangerous space between the railings and the mattress, which a child can become trapped.
Parents are advised to immediately stop using this crib, and order the repair kit through the manufacturer Bassettbaby. Parents can also call 1-800-308-7485 for information on obtaining the repair kit to fix the dangerous problem.
Unfortunately for parents and children all over the country, drop-side cribs have been getting a bad rap, rightfully so. Since they became popular there have been a number of recalls prompted by injured children, and many don’t think it will be long before the cribs are pulled off the market altogether or banned from being sold. I fully believe they should be banned completely. We have dismantled our own drop-side crib and transformed it into the toddler bed function out of fear for the product safety. Continue reading »
If you watch the commercials, as soon as you spray Axe body spray on yourself, beautiful women will knock down your door to throw themselves at you. In reality, unfortunately, you’ll probably just smell kinda funny. Even more unfortunately, teenagers experimenting with the product aren’t doing so to smell better. Instead, they are — literally — playing with fire.
You might have heard that Hasbro recently came up with a Ouija board “just for girls.” What, you ask, makes a game that consists of a piece of a cardboard and a plastic triangle “just for girls?” Why, the color pink, of course!
But the sleepover staple may not be all fun and games. Continue reading »
As parents, it is up to us to set boundaries for what our children are allowed to do as they progress on their way to maturity. We don’t let them cross the street by themselves before a certain age, we don’t let them play with matches, and we give them ineffective plastic knives to use on the food we’ve already cut up for them. Of course, every parent has a different view of what children should be allowed to do at each stage of their life. Some parents let their kids climb trees, some parents let their kids build ramps for their bikes and skateboards, and then there’s Gever Tulley.
A snow fort in the middle of a parking lot almost spelled disaster for some Indiana kids this week – and it had nothing to do with the snow. It was the plow headed straight for what looked like a useless pile of white stuff where cars should be.
Driver Mike Tuttle’s brush with the near death of a group of kids playing in the snow is the sort of stuff that gives highway crews everywhere nightmares – and should be freaking out more parents. Continue reading »
Melissa and Tony Wescott’s 11-year-old son is ready to come home, but they don’t want him to.
The Wescott’s, who adopted the boy in 2007, want to give him back to the state. In fact they’re fighting to change an Oklahoma law so they can return their adopted son.
Most of us believe parenting is an intuitive thing. So why is it the most well-meaning efforts of parents are royally warping kids everywhere? Right now, you are psychologically destroying your child by teaching them value of individuality.
At least, that’s the position of Cracked writer Cezary Jan Strusiewicz. And before you dismiss Ceazry’s work as some comedian’s hack job, notice he backed every assertion with actuall scientific research. So sit back and discover why praising your kids, teaching them to be themselves and warning them about strangers is only preparing your kids for a life as an anti-social super villain.
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