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• Safety tips for the holidays

  
  News Moms Need — Authority: 128
  The holidays are an exciting time of year for kids, and to help ensure they have a safe holiday season, here are some tips from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).  Toy Safety • Select toys to suit the age, abilities, skills and interest level of the intended child.  Toys too advanced may pose safety ...
  6 days ago

• Sex 411: Sharing is Caring

  
  Sexuality Happens — Authority: 472
  Re-posted from Good Vibrations Magazine If you’ve been following pretty much any conversation on sex toys, you’ve probably heard about phthalates in toys, how they can be dangerous (or at least allergy causing), and how there are all sorts of awesome and amazing materials that are in fact phthalate-free. Good ...
  1 week ago

• Memory Family Educational Card Game - Juego de Naipes Educacionales

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 156
  Memory Family Educational Card Game - Juego de Naipes Educacionales This memory card game has been designed to make play fun and easy for children ages 3 and older. Fanciful Dinosaurs are having a party on these unique design card faces - 16 different characters make game play even more fun as children match [...]
  1 week ago

• Top 10 Toy Safety Tips

  
  Busy Mom: A Mom Blog and Parenting Site — Authority: 492
  During the holiday season it is difficult to make sense of the millions of toys out there. Which ones are best for your child? Toys are supposed to be fun and are an important part of any child’s development. But each year, scores of kids are treated in hospital emergency departments for toy-related injuries. ...
  1 week ago

• Safety issues remain

  
  Stephanie Oppenheim on Toys — Authority: 131
  I just got an amazing new collection of small wooden blocks…150 pieces with an even greater price. The quality is very good–there are both plain and colored blocks.  I was really psyched -hoping we could get a safety verification form quickly so that we could put it on our Platinum List.  But then I looked at ...
  1 week ago

• Awesome Holiday Giveaway from MightyNest.com

  
  SafeMama.com — Authority: 111
  The great people from MightyNest.com have a fantastic giveaway for our SafeMama readers this week.  If you haven’t noticed, we skipped the Safer Toy Guide this year.  Not because we don’t care, but more because we all have new babies at home and well, time is limited.  So in lieu we’ve been doing giveaways to ...
  1 week ago

• Toy trucks and pajama sets recalled

  
  News Moms Need — Authority: 128
  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is recalling Super Rigs Play Sets because the toy trucks’ paint coating contains lead . Lead is a very strong poison that can be very harmful to children. The toys were sold between September and November 2009. Learn more about the toy truck recall . The CPSC is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pick of the Day: Corolle’s Rag Doll

  
  Stephanie Oppenheim on Toys — Authority: 131
  Corolles Large Rag Doll If you’re looking for a first doll for a baby or toddler, take a look at Corolle’s Rag Dolls–they are extremely huggable, sweet and soft. Read our review .
  2 weeks ago

• Evenflo set to announce recall of ExerSaucers due to choking hazard

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Recalls , Consumer Ally The Evenflo ExerSaucer 1-2-3 Tea for Me will be recalled on Thursday due to a part that can detach, putting toddlers at risk of choking, WalletPop has learned. About 66,000 of the activity centers are to be part of the recall, which will be announced by the U.S. Consumer ...
  2 weeks ago

• CPSC begins probe: Are Zhu Zhu Hamsters Safe?

  
  Stephanie Oppenheim on Toys — Authority: 131
  After the consumer group, Good Guide , raised issues about their finding on the level of antimony in the Zhu Zhu hamsters , the government agency is beginning a probe on the issue. Cepia LLC, the manufacturer of the Zhu Zhu Hamsters, is standing by the safety of their toys.   Read the story from Reuters .
  2 weeks ago

• Zhu Zhu Pets possible safety concern and holiday shopping

  
  Parents Talk Back — Authority: 117
   Could Mr. Squiggles have cancer? The popular robotic hamster is one of the holiday’s hottest toys, but a consumer safety group released a report over the weekend citing a dangerous level of chemicals in the Zhu Zhu Pet. According to a report…
  2 weeks ago

• Toy Safety Tips – Just in Time for the Holidays

  
  The Fashionable Bambino — Authority: 601
  With news headlines stating that the Zhu Zhu pets are unsafe, we thought we would post this list of toy safety tips that just came through today….just in time for the holidays when many children will be receiving new toys as gifts. Toy Safety Tips by Malcolm Denniss: Technical Director for SGS Consumer Testing ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Good Guide: Ratings that Matter (on toys, food, personal care products and more)

  
  Non-Toxic Kids — Authority: 466
  Oh, I am so happy to have found the Good Guide . Youve got to love a site that tests and rates toys for safety, has loads of information about toxics in our environment and bodies, up to date news, and has links to activism. In the GoodGuides ratings, they take into consideration the environmental, safety and ...
  3 weeks ago

• TIA Toy Websites For Parents

  
  BrainFoggles — Authority: 429
  TIA  toy websites for parents help with holiday shopping. TIA is the Toy Industry Association which is a not-for-profit association that focuses on toy safety. To help parents and others who buy toys for the holiday season, there are two brand new sites to check out. They are sure to help you with your shopping list. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Zhu Zhu Hamsters: Group Questions their Safety

  
  Stephanie Oppenheim on Toys — Authority: 131
  The consumer group Good Guide has raised issues about the safety of the Zhu Zhu Hamsters.   To read more about our take on them, read our article Zhu Zhu Hamster Pets: What You Need to Know about the Hot Little Critters .   We have not received a signed  safety verification form from Cepia LLC for the Zhu ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mattel’s Lead Paint Toy Settlement: Do You Qualify?

  
  Stephanie Oppenheim on Toys — Authority: 131
  Read this article in the Examiner by Patricia Walston–it takes you step by step to see if you are entitled to part of the settlement money.
  3 weeks ago

• Christmas Toy Shopping

  
  Happy Healthy Families — Authority: 418
  
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• Top Green Toy Companies of 2009

  
  Greener Choices for Stuff You Use Everyday! — Authority: 139
  GoodGuide has evaluated over 40 toy brands to put together a list of the Top Green Toy Companies of 2009 . They looked at materials from the type of plastics they use, to the source of their wood, paints and coatings. Further, they evaluated these companies for their energy use, environmental management systems, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Green Gifts for the : A List from Amazon.Com

  
  Eco-Friendly Tips — Authority: 501
  I’m sure you’re already trying to complete your Christmas list, buying gifts for your children, your nephews and nieces, your friend’s kids and your godchildren. As you remember the spirit of Christmas, please also don’t forget the essence of Mother Nature and the importance of going green even in this holiday ...
  3 weeks ago

• Where are Mattels Ethics? Undercover Like Burka Barbie

  
  Ethic Soup — Authority: 111
  HERE IT IS -- BURKA BARBIE! Mattel has decided to auction off a Barbie doll  dressed in a head-to-toe burka, with a mesh peep hole, as a collectors item. What is wrong with Mattel? Burka Barbie  was part of a 500 Barbie doll collection recently held in Florence, Italy. The most famous anatomically ...
  3 weeks ago

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