Consumer Reports Withdraws Infant Safety Seat Report
Talk about having egg on your face… After making a huge splash with their study on infant safety seats, Consumer Reports has just withdrawn their report. According to Consumer Reports: We withdrew the...
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Peanut Butter Recalled due to Salmonella
In case you haven’t heard, the CDC has linked a salmonella outbreak to Peter Pan peanut butter as well as Wal-Mart’s Great Value peanut butter — both of which are produced by ConAgra Foods, Inc. Thus...
View ArticleEasy Bake Recall
This doesn’t affect us, but it sounds like there’s a potential for serious injury, so I thought I’d post it here… Hasbro has issued a second recall of Easy-Bake Ovens sold since May 2006. Hasbro...
View ArticleStranger Danger Meets the Amish
We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch on our way home from vacation a few weeks ago, and something interesting happened. Those of you familiar with “The Barrel” (as we refer to it) know that it has a...
View Article101 Child Safety Tips
The good folks over at ParentWonder just dropped us a line about a list of 101 child-proofing tips that they’ve put together. I just skimmed through the list, and there are a lot of good suggestions,...
View ArticleRecalls, Recalls Everywhere – Toys and Bibs
In case you haven’t heard, Mattel has recalled 19 million toys made in China. At the heart of the recall are two main problems: lead paint and magnets. The lead paint problems affect multiple...
View ArticleDude, Where’s Our Bread? Recalled!
First lead-laced toys and bibs, and now this… Over the weekend, my wife and I were lamenting that we haven’t been able to find our preferred bread – Earthgrains Honey Wheat Berry – anywhere in town....
View ArticleKeeping Track of Toy Recalls via RSS and E-Mail
Are you worried about the recent toy recalls? Having trouble keeping up with what’s safe and what’s made of lead? Then look no further than the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s master list of...
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On Kids, Butts, and Google Image Search
The other day my wife informed me that Son #2 (currently seven years old) had run a Google images search for ‘butts’ on her MacBook when he was supposedly searching for information on reptiles. And...
View ArticleHow to Deal With a Bully at School
How do you teach your kids to deal with a bully? Our oldest son, who is currently ten (nearly eleven) years old and in 5th grade, told us last night that one of the kids in his class has been picking...
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