Seeing these recalls from Chinese toys makes me want to help parents keep their children safe. Here's how to buy toys for your pride and joy.
- To determine a toy's safety, try these simple tests: Does your child choke on it? Does it produce welts, cuts, or bruises? Does it turn up whole or in fragments in your child's stool?
- Decide what you would like your child to be, then only buy toys that steer him or her in that direction.
- One of the best educational toys you can buy your child is a pet. A rabbit, for example, can teach him or her about the life cycle, mammalian reproduction, toxicology, comparative anatomy, and cooking
- Buy your child expensive, collectible toys and forbid him or her to take them out of the box. This will teach your child valuable life lessons about longing, deprivation, and resentment.