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Worried your kids will lose newly learned reading skills over summer break? Target and Search Institute, a Minneapolis nonprofit, have partnered up to provide parents and kids with creative reading tips to last the whole summer long.
Just click on the Play + Learn tab on Target’s Facebook page to find new creative tips through the month of July.
Here are a few to get you started:
I find myself reporting for the third time this week about lead in children’s products. Despite having to pay hefty fines, retailers like Target continue to import lead-laden items. WalletPop reported earlier this month that Target, Walmart, Sears and Macy’s had all been busted for selling purses, belts and shoes meant for adults with high levels of lead in them. Items sold to adults are not currently regulated for lead the way children’s products are, however, maximum lead levels will be implemented for purses and other accessories by the end of this year. (Do we have to go through consumer items one by one to say they can’t contain lead? Shouldn’t all products be made to contain less than 300 ppm of lead?)
The Associated Press announced today that the children’s belts recalled for lead levels (pictured) were manufactured in China and sold at Target stores nationwide, “as well as on Target’s website, between December 2008 and December 2009. For more information, call 800-440-0680 or visit http://www.cpsc.gov.
Infant Carriers and onesies were also recalled this week. Continue reading »
MSNBC reports that, ”The U.S. government on Tuesday announced a recall of 44,000 pink baby blankets, saying the giraffe decorations on the blankets pose a choking hazard.” The recall is voluntary. The blankets are made by Rashti & Rashti and were “sold at Target stores between January and August of 2009.” The blanket is pictured to the left and refund information can be found here on the Rashti & Rashti website.
Consumer Reports announced yesterday that Target is also recalling 350,000 woven storage trunks “after an 18-month-old girl suffered brain damage when the lid of a trunk fell down on the back of her neck and pinned her throat against the rim.” Two additional reports of injury have been filed with the Consumer Product Safety Commission after trunk lids closed on children. Continue reading »
Warm weather is just around the corner and that can only mean one thing: Summer clothes! For a baby, keeping cool in the summer often involves wearing just a diaper. But that doesn’t mean your baby has to go around sporting a plain white butt. No, you can keep baby cool and stylish with Huggies new Little Movers Jeans Diapers!
These faux denim baby pants have been available in other countries since 2007, but have just now come on the market here. Designed to help baby “stay trendy while keeping dry,” they come in sizes 3 to 5 and, other than the awesome denim print, are exactly like regular Huggies Little Movers. Continue reading »
In an ad flier in today’s paper, I saw a big headline, “We’ve Got Zhu Zhu Pets!” and thought to myself, “I am not going within 100 feet of that store today. People get a little frantic this time of year, and people are definitely nutty over Zhu Zhu pets.
So nutty, in fact, that one woman lost her job over the furry little robotic hamsters.
Mary and Jose and their newborn baby (perhaps in swaddling clothes?) were told “no room in the electronics aisle” at a Harper Woods, Mich., Target — not if mother Mary was going to keep breastfeeding that baby like she was.
But Mary and Jose didn’t stop. And they didn’t leave the store. So cops were called. And, well, I think we can safely assume lactaters of the greater Detroit area are coordinating their calendars for a big, wet, milky nurse-in.
Here’s how it spiraled out of control for Target: Continue reading »
Target was recently forced to delete an “Illegal Alien” costume from its online catalogue. And, yes, it’s what you think it is. The costume came equipped with an alien mask, green card and orange jumpsuit with “Illegal Alien” emblazoned across the chest.
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