I'm getting so damn sick and tired of this

Every time I turn around, there is another toy recall. I seem to be spending more and more time trying to find out if my child is being poisioned because some slimeballs in this country weren't satisfied with making 40 times what an average line worker makes and just had to have more, more more!! :mad:

The govt needs to step in and revoke the license for these pigs to operate in this country until they can get their shit together and create products that aren't a damned hazard to anyone who touches them. Enough is enough!!

I try not to buy the Chinese made crap, but a lot of family has showered my daughter with toys, toys, toys because, frankly, she's the cutest kid that has ever lived. So, that leaves Mom and Dad frantically rummaging through the toybox wth a list of poision toys every few weeks or so. Where does it all end??

:grr:

Kids are so cute.

However, I wonder what that conspicuous consumptive mania for toys and stuff
is all about??? How much is enough?

I know I have probably indulged way more than II should have. I was 42 when she was born, waited a long time before becoming a father and she is most likely going to be the only child we ever have, so I'll admit to going off the deep end a bit. However, no matter how much we indulge in buying things for her, I can't imagine how it could ever be right for corporations to slip as far off the tracks as these big toy comanies have. It is inexcusable.

most parents today are doing that.

My nephews toy chest is bulging at the seams from cheaply made hot wheels... and train sets... and my nieces also had far more toys growing up than we did

It is the culture...

And the coroporations have helped to create this environment

I told my sister, my nephews will ONLY get toys for their birthday, that's it. Not Hanukah, not becuase it is a nice day, not becuase I got the whim,

She looked at me like I was nuts

So they will get American Made toys... or money

But I will not give them crap

When we go to stores these days... they go, but can you buy me this?

NO...

It is that simple. It is a hard thing to tell a three year old with the cutest eyes around (HAH our dearest are always the cutets)... and I don't care if he makes a scene.

toy manufacturers, shameful, what we have come to.

Fisher Price for gods sake, I would have never thought handing my child a Fisher Price toy could be that dangerous :(

our own toys.

Or money. :D

I can always use that :D

there are places

I bought a blanket for a baby to be born in January made in the US, and I paid for it...

But that is what it will take

http://www.ibuyamericanmade.com/

being that MY DAUGHTERS were the cutest kids that have ever lived. :D

to my grandson. :D

:hi:

you know where the greedy S.O.B. in the corporations send the companies overseas so they can hire slave labor and make more money.

but is it really "free" trade? Not as far as I'm concerned. When these megacorps lay our children's health, safety and well being on the altar of sacrifice for their profits, there is a terrible price to be paid, just not by them. Hardly "free" trade by any stretch of the imagination in my book x(

It was very hard. He doesn't even really play with them, he just has little displays and likes to occasionally re-arrange the scene. He was balling his eyes out this last time when I had to bag up a James train...he kept crying, "But, I promise that I never eat my toys..." Crimey, broke my heart...but now he gets it and he even asks me if he is thinking of trying to get a toy, if it is made in China...

Education can be hard, but learned young it opens up their eyes...

Peace.

When my little one is old enough to understand such things. She will be two in January, so she is still a little young to understand yet. Thankfully, so far, we haven't had anything on the recall lists yet. I just lay awake at night sometimes worrying what may be lurking that we don't know about yet :(

:sarcasm:

I think there are like three inspectors having to handle every toy that is sold in this country.

:grr: