Safety Gates Aren’t Always Safe
Safety 1st Stair Gate Recall
What are parents scared of when they have an infant or toddler moving around? Stairs! Keeping infants and toddlesr away from dangerous areas such as a flight of stairs is hugely important. Enter the stair gates. We all use them to prevent our children from reaching these hazardous areas.
Unfortunately, one of those gates has now [...]
Don’t Get Burned By Your Wii Battery Charger
These days everyone wants a Wii: your kids, your husband, and the old man in the retirement home. It mixes video games with real life. Who could resist playing tennis and bowling from the comfort of their own living room? But, if you want to play, you need the hand-held remotes with charged batteries.
The good [...]
Toys R Us Trade-In Program Ends September 20, 2009
Toys R Us launched a program to get used cribs and other children’s equipment out of the chain of commerce. If you bring a used crib, car seat and other baby products to a Toys R Us and trade it in on a purchase in the same category, Toys R Us will give you a 20% [...]
Read This Before You Buy Used Toys and Equipment for Your Child
People used to get “hand-me-down” baby furniture from friends and relatives. Toys used to be handed down when the older child outgrew them. You could find all kinds of bargains at yard sales and advertised in neighborhood newspapers. Now, lots of us go to Craigslist if we want to buy or sell used children’s furniture, [...]
Bugaboo Bee Strollers – Brake Failure
I always thought a ‘bugaboo’ was someone or something that was annoying. This stroller can be very annoying — and dangerous.
The manufacturer has recalled its Bugaboo Bee Stroller because its brakes can fail which would allow the stroller to roll away if it’s on an incline. Item code, 580210, is on a label on [...]
Dangerous Circo Booster Seat from Target
Booster seats are supposed to make our children safer, not fling them around inside the car and cause injury. The buckle on any child seat, whether it be a stroller, high chair, or booster seat is supposed to keep wiggly children from falling out of their seat.
A booster seat sold exclusively at Target has been recalled [...]