JenZ
11-25-2007, 10:42 AM
Ok, I just had to vent.
It is the Christmas season and those of us with kinder on their shopping list usually give toys. But it seems like everyday there is some new lead paint scare. I check the Consumer Product Safety Commision website http://www.cpsc.gov/index.html to keep on on what not to buy for the kids on my list. But the rest of my family do not but still are freaking out about it. So I get my FIL telling my MIL and I that all the Dora toys have been recalled and that my MIL cannot buy my niece a Baby Alive because he thinks they are made in China. My sister is no better, she refused to let my nephew have any of the toys I bought him for his recent birthday untill she checked to see if they are recalled...whenever she gets around to it. I told her that I already checked but she said "don't worry, I'll look". I did not realized that I had a problem with the whole "reading" thing.
I realize that lead paint is a serious problem and that these toy recalls are causing problems especially for charities like the Salvation Army (they are having to check each toy received against a recall list and it is killing their ability to get other things done) but I am going nuts will all the people around me overreacting without the right information.
I was just wondering if anyone else was having this problem?
It is the Christmas season and those of us with kinder on their shopping list usually give toys. But it seems like everyday there is some new lead paint scare. I check the Consumer Product Safety Commision website http://www.cpsc.gov/index.html to keep on on what not to buy for the kids on my list. But the rest of my family do not but still are freaking out about it. So I get my FIL telling my MIL and I that all the Dora toys have been recalled and that my MIL cannot buy my niece a Baby Alive because he thinks they are made in China. My sister is no better, she refused to let my nephew have any of the toys I bought him for his recent birthday untill she checked to see if they are recalled...whenever she gets around to it. I told her that I already checked but she said "don't worry, I'll look". I did not realized that I had a problem with the whole "reading" thing.
I realize that lead paint is a serious problem and that these toy recalls are causing problems especially for charities like the Salvation Army (they are having to check each toy received against a recall list and it is killing their ability to get other things done) but I am going nuts will all the people around me overreacting without the right information.
I was just wondering if anyone else was having this problem?